Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post

check the xbitlabs article about this, called driver scaling with 4870 iirc... from half a year back... they showed that in several games perf had improved around 10%... thats not much, but if youd compare 8.7 to 9.9 im sure youd see more than a 10% boost for a 4870... probably around 15-20% in several games... and not just av fps, min fps has increased as well...
While I haven't read it, I am sure the games showing the most improvement are the ones that were either new releases or not even released when the HD 4870 was brought to market.