Quote Originally Posted by safan80 View Post
Yes that is completely correct. As former a 4870x2 owner and a current 5970 owner. cayman should look like this: 6970>5970

With how badly my 5970 smoked 2x285GTXs at launch in both minimum and maximum fps I'm hoping the 6990 can do the same to 2x580 (should be a 485GTX). Even though I still like the GTX580 but the price could be lower.
Eastcoasthandle said 5870, not 5970.

Surprising that your 5970 'smoked' SLI 285GTXs as benchmarks have them pretty close, overall I'd say the 5970 is faster but not by much: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/167?vs=165

I guess it depends on what games you play.