Quote Originally Posted by Dami3n View Post
Anand, bit-tech, Hcanucks,....., and it canīt beat easy the 4870x2.
With same specs, better clocks, and without de handicap of crossfire, i expected better performance in all games. So, yes, the results with the drivers used is a bit dissapointing.
Unlike some people, I am of the opinion that history has shown that new drivers do not increase the performance of a single chip card unless there are issues to begin with. Dual GPU cards? Yes, new drivers definately increase performance in existing games.

Where single GPU cards get performance increases is with new games that hadn't been optimized in past drivers or fixing errors with performance in current games. One example of an issue is the HD 5870's HawX DX10.1 performance. I am sure that will be fixed in future revisions.

Otherwise, I will put money on the fact that the HD 5870 will never beat the HD 4870X2 on a regular basis even with driver revisions. There is a substantial bandwidth gap between the two making equalized performance next to impossible.