Quote Originally Posted by Musho View Post
For nVidia's sake, I hope this isn't true. I hope that they are already using 10.3 drivers, because if they are not, the 5870 will be _very_ close to the GTX480. 10.3 gave some nice boosts in both benchmarks such as vantage, as real world games.
yeh, but later releases of the nvidia drivers will also offer nice performance boosts. If you really want to be fair you should compare the gtx480 with the 5870 using the launch ATI drivers, but that will never happen so just remember if the difference is 8~10% now with 10.3 drivers and NV beta drivers, given 4 months the gap will probably be more like 15%~20% with mature nv drivers.

the 10.3 drivers offer a substantial performance increase over the launch 9.12s, and the same can be expected over in NV land.