Thanks for summing that up zerazax! With latest numbers from harry97 ,it looks like 6970 will just slightly trail 580GTX in gaming,by ~5% or so,which can be addressed with non-reference (factory OC) models coming from partners. With the same number of stream processors,more SIMD engines and much improved front end and back end,Cayman is a very fine piece of engineering work . I hope with the new PowerPlay there is still some room for improvement though.