Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
hmmm that doesnt sound that good...
more realistic, but a bit dissapointing...
looks like the 6870 will be close to a gtx480, but definitely not faster... might not even match it...
The 5870 in some games where ATI is favoured already bests the 480.
Since SI strengthens the weakest areas of 5 series performance and also includes a more efficient 4 shader model (and more of them) with a higher memory amount AND bandwidth (as well as more tesselation modules) then it's not very likely that the 6870 will be anything less than the 480 in the worst case scenario.

Definitely faster.