Hardware heaven <--- They taking the p+ss or what
I don't know why so much people hate Physix and CUDA... May be because ATI don't have anything of these. It's like saying that i7's are not honest because they have TURBO and HT. Now Amd will implement TURBO to.
May be Ati 6XXX series will have Physix. When you buy something you use all it's capabilities, not throw away Physix to the back door just because Ati don't have. Anyway the performance is far from being competitive...
Probably a 512SP GTX 480 would have been more distanced from 5870 and closer to the 5970. But clearly would not have meet the 250W TDP.