Quote Originally Posted by Crankybugga View Post
Dont let any facts get in the way of good ol 5870 bashing.

I can see some experts here trying to track down some mysterious bottleneck crippling the HD5870, even though it out performs nvidias biggest and best dualcore monstrosity in some game benchmarks and poses a serious threat in most others.
Only nvidiots would portray a 40% performance improvement between models as too little, then claim to know about a mysterious bottleneck to back this opinion.
Its the same every model release when the opposing side feels threatened.
Gotta say, I love this response, and agree. The 5870 is what it is....a "product", build on design, manufacturing, cost, and marketing/sales limitations. If the components are not equally matched, and thus there is hidden performance, so what. It is what it is. No one could ever claim that the 5870 components were perfectly tuned....to say within a few % of each other. It is "technically" interested what these test show, but in the real world what do they mean......they certainly have nothing to do w/ the decision to buy, or not buy.

And for disclosure's sake, I get my XFX 5870 on Monday.




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