Gigabyte 6850 vs 5870 - performance vs price analysis

[youngpro]

Why testing 16xQ in Crysis? Doesn't make sense to me.

PS: in Crysis, 6850 @ 1000 performs more or less like a GTX470 @ 800.

this is the settings I always use for this testing, so i will continue to use a setting for comparison sake, if you can suggest settings that is more likely to be used by gamer, please let me know i can include in future testing

why did you compare crysis max fps?

i titled the graph wrong, you can see now it is AVG fps

i dont understand the volt/oc scaling, there are two entries for 1.16 and 1.225?

i have changed it just for you sacha, now it should be more clear

i think nobody is going to get a 5870 now, 6850 vs 460 or 6850 vs 5850 would have been more interesting imo...

i dont have those cards, i can only compare against what i have, so i take a slightly different approach

correct me if im wrong... but those are the numbers you can except from these cards when oced, and despite all the ocing hype for the 460s, they dont oc a lot more than any other card they compete with.

i am not sure what you mean, here i am showing 6850 stock, 6850 oc and 5870 only.. yes of course you can expect 900/950+ on any 5870 and it will kill 6850 @ 1000/1200