Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
One more thing to look at it for me is the TFLOPs, the GTX 285 has about 1.06tflops of performance vs 2.08flops of performance of the 5850.

Although it is nearly double the tflops, the 5850 is only 5% faster according to tech powerup. The next GTX 380 is supposed to be 2.5 tflops. If we do indeed get this many tflops from the gtx 380, than forget about it just be competitive with the 5870, its going to start getting competitive with the 5870 x2.

The specs of the gtx 380 might seem outlandish at this point, but considering the size of the gtx 380, which is guaranteed to be huge and NV won't fool around considering how much marketshare AMD has gained for NV being conservative the last time around, I expect them to make a crazy card this time around.
Xfire for 5870 in Farcry2 as seen in my post 28% increase vs single card...
Xfire for 4870 vs 4870x2 91% increase.. near perfect scaling... I think the scaling for the profiles of the 5870 have a long way to go... even if they dont reach as high it will still be a substantial fps increase.

As for the Tflops, the 5870 is at 2.7? .. And again, look at the drivers, the performance is from launch drivers, that havent harnessed the power yet, and from old games, I think there is more in store with dx11. As well the speculation on the gtx380 is just that, I m sure the numbers will edge out the 5870, but who knows by how much, we could argue either way, and it wont make a difference until some real numbers are released, so for now, we should focus on what we know.. which is the 5870 is a powerful card and given the scaling and performance in games, seems like it has a lot of room to mature with drivers.