Quote Originally Posted by Solus Corvus View Post
What would be the point of discussing it instead of sarcastically beating up strawmen?
What strawmen? You're the one making sweeping assumptions. I just chose not to counter them with my own unfounded predictions. You never explained why you think there are big driver improvements to be had on Cypress even though the architecture barely changed.

I'm not even sure why you brought up GTX285 SLI, everyone else was talking about GTX295.
That's because I didn't. Mario did and you did as well.

If that happens performance would probably, IMO, look something like: 5850 < 5870 ~= GTX360 < GTX380 < 5970 < GTX390
That's basically a redux of last generation.
Except the GTX280 wasn't 40% faster than the HD4870 and was quite a bit slower than the 4870X2.