Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
HD 6970 average performance increase over HD 5870:

20% = FAIL !
30% = decent but MEH ! Can be good if priced aggressively, quite less than US$ 400
40% = VERY GOOD, my expectation, MSRP 449, US$ 479 at most
50% and up = AMAZING, hail the new R300 king !
You mean over GTX 480? GTX 580 is coming out at $499 it appears by Amazon pricing, and will hopefully be 20-25% faster than the 480 in games, run cool & overclock well. The GTX 480 is already a good bit faster than the 5870 (especially in SLI/Crossfire 2x card mode).... so I sure hope that 6970 is more than 40% faster than a 5870 and then would still be deserving of a $400/less pricetag from the looks of things. Just my two cents . If it's only 40% faster than a 5870 (or thus maybe 10% than a GTX 480), and launched at $449-479 it would be a fail in my eyes.