Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
By quick calculations, GTX580 is 20-60% faster than HD6870 in those testes. So HD6970 at 50% more than HD6870 would most likely winning some and losing some. So basically it would about par in performance. Ofc it still has so much room to change depending on its architechtures improvement points. If they can improve lot in situations where GTX580 is strong, it could come at overall winner. But in other way also, it could come overall loser. Shame we need to wait so long..
it will be interesting, since the arch is changing, who knows which games it will be strong or weak on.

i honestly do not expect such an even difference like we saw with the 580 relative to 480.

hopefully they also give us 10.12 cats with their December release. otherwise a week later people will have to update them again for who knows what kind of perf boost. (im sure w1zzard wouldnt like having to do a review all over again the week of the holidays because amd couldnt get them out just a little sooner than normal)