Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
after thinking about it again i really expect 6970 to beat gtx 580 (those 30% might be possible in selected tests)


why? going from 5870 to 6970 we have the following improvements:

320 -> 480 shader clusters (30% improvement)
480/320=1.5x or 50% (or 50% more than baseline 320 you are comparing to,which is Cypress)