Quote Originally Posted by cegras View Post
Percentages are so stupid. If your test is 10 fps and the other card gets 20, that's a factor of 2.0, but clearly both are unplayable. Furthermore, why are we factoring synthetics into 'real-world' tests?
if you remove all unplayable results (<30fps) from the charts and keep only the game benchmarks; you end up with ~28.7% increase in performance over HD 5870.

granted that this card is overkill for 1680x1050, and also 1920x1200 for most games, even with 8xAA.