Quote Originally Posted by Micutzu View Post
HD 6870 is about 10% cheaper (current newegg prices) and it's faster in all situations (both cards stock clocks); with both cards overclocked HD 5850 barely catches up in some benchmarks. Tesselation performance is obviously higher with HD 6870 even if there aren't too many DX 11 games out there. All in all, a bit faster, a bit cheaper, seems a better buy.
6870 can barely reach 1100mhz while 5850 can go all the way to 950mhz easily, and I can tell you that 5850 will be much stronger than the 6870 in that situation.