Asus' 2GB Radeon HD 5870 Matrix card pictured

[BababooeyHTJ]

Thats like saying if you have a game (of which there are many) that dont benefit from a quad core CPU, you'll never buy a quad core ever again. Nor does Ram scale very well beyond 4 Gb, but you also have 8 Gb of that .

I've never seen the extra cores or ram cause negative scaling, or driver issues. I wasn't impressed with a 4870x2 compared to my GTX280 and I doubt that I would be impressed with a 5970 compared to a 5870. I didn't even bring up heat, power draw, and overclockability. Crossfire doesn't scale well a lot of the time and once you start throwing mods into the mix things get worse.

I will always pay more for a single gpu than for a similar performing (at times) multi gpu setup. The framerate swings are horrible.

^ill take 4
must be what Asus meant by 50% clock potential.

I can't believe that is Vantage stable. I want that card.

[w00tz123]

Any word on a release date? I want this as my new card

[Manicdan]

Any word on a release date? I want this as my new card

im more worried about when i can get it for 300$, until then i dont care cause i still think everything we have out right now is overpriced horribly