Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
I think you have a very optimistic view on HD5870 performance. 10-20% isn't enough to catch GTX 285 SLI.

It's enough to catch a 295 that everyone keeps mentioning in this thread. GTX285 SLI is 59x0 territory.

Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
Why would AMD be concerned with an EOL part?
GTX285 is EOL too.

Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
No I mean by the time this fabled refresh hits Fermi will be on the market and GTX 295 will be long gone. I'm waiting to hear what this refresh will be based on though given that we're stuck on 40nm for all of 2010. It could be a new architecture but it remains to be seen whether it'll be more efficient than Cypress on the same node.
It would be on the same node with higher clocks and some arch tweaks - just like 4890.