Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
You must be the funniest XS member I have ever seen.

First of all the Vantage scores for 480/5870 comparison tell absolutely nothing, according to Vantage scores 480 should have 5870 performance but we all know that it's actually 15% faster than 5870. So what, 100mhz overclocked 5870 beats a 480 by 450 points on Vantage. SNORE.

If a benchmark that is not representative of the general situation can be used to describe how a card is "destroyed" then I might as well use the Unigine bench with extreme tessellation to claim that the GTX 480 tramples even the 5970.
"Wide availability" and with every card being able to reach 1100? How is "wide availability" and "super cherry picked chips" not mutually exclusive? Even if that's possible, that represents a 29% overclock. GTX 470 can be overclocked 33%, and the 480 is between 20-25%. So no, even with that much overclock you probably are going to lose to an OC'd 480, which is the same price as this card but has enhanced DX11 capabilities and higher VRAM.

Finally I have no idea who told you there were no cards in Europe or Middle East. I live in Turkey and I have a lot of friends who bought GF100's this week. If there are cards here then I'd say there would be a lot of cards in Europe as well. I think the situation is better than the 5800 launch.
WELL LETS LOOK AT THE GIGABYTE BENCH RESULTS FOR HEAVEN THEN:




OH SNAP!!!!!! AT 1920x1200 THE GIGABYTE SUPER OVERCLOCK IS THE FASTEST SINGLE GPU CARD. PERIOD. AND IT IS BINNED TO GO TO 1100Mhz - NVIDIA eat my dust, you cannot even beat this new revision of the 5870 at your own benchmark unless we go to 2560x1600 and we all know that is just memory - put 2GB on the Gigabyte card and the ownage would continue.

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET OWNED IN THE FACE?



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - WELCOME TO THE FASTEST SINGLE GPU ON EARTH AND IT AINT MADE BY NVIDIA!!!! THIS NEW SPIN/REVISION THAT WENT INTO THE GIGABYTE BOARD IS MIGHTY FAST!!!!