Quote Originally Posted by Solus Corvus View Post
ATI 5000/6000 is off topic too. But where did you hear 20-30%?
It's from here:
http://www.chw.net/2010/07/ati-radeo...e-rendimiento/

Also seems to have some details on Southern Islands. If this is true, it would be rather disappointing.

It would mean that ATI's next generation high end single GPU graphics card is only 25-30% faster than Nvidia's current generation high end single GPU graphics card, and it is still 6 months away from now. Long before the "6870" will be out, we are likely to have a GTX485 with a GF100 GPU that has all the logic enabled and higher clock speeds. And in 6 months, Nvidia might have a respin/refresh of Fermi or even next generation Fermi cards.