Quote Originally Posted by villa1n View Post
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.
I don't know how much driver performance you can expect from the single card those. Considering the similarities between the 5870 architecture and the 4870 architecture, beside CF performance I don't know if there is going to be any real jumps in performance. I think alot of the transisters from the new rv8xx is dedicated to directx 11, so I can see performance not going up like crazy.

One more reason I am hopeful of NV performancewise is nv gtx 6xxx and gtx 8xxx, were all changes to new architecture and all them had huge performance jumps. Of course 5xxx gtx was a new generation and was terrible, I hope this is not the case because I want a strong competition from both sides, where both companies can make money and offer price drops to the consumer. The sad thing is considering the size of NV chips, the only way this happens is if NV big chips are competitive with AMD dual chip solutions or offers a 50% performance advantage over AMD single chip solutions, which I think NV is banking on.

I am not an NV fanboy as I have a 4870x2 and a 4890 and nothing from the gtx 2xx series lineup. I just want a strong competition from both sides, which I think everyone wants.