Quote Originally Posted by Motiv View Post
http://www.ixbt.com/video/itogi-vide...1920-pcie.html

looks like nvidia could be in trouble!

then again...
you do realize you linked the like the only test that the 6970 beats the 580 in... almost every other graph at 1920x1200 with AA+AF (probably closest to the most common settings here on XS) shows the 580 and 570 beating the 6970.

It also shows the 6970 beating the 6950 by an average of 10% making the 6950 a much more attractive card. however there are a handful of tests where the GTX 470 beats the 6950... not to mention that the 6950 only beats the 5870 in a few cases and even the 6970 at times has trouble beating the 5870.

now granted this is ONE review and a sketchy one at that so tomorrow will tell for sure. i did notice however that the performance is about the same as the 5870 in most older games (non DX11) but performance is a good bunch better in newer DX11 games which makes sense if you think about the way the designed it to be better at tessellation.

Overall time will tell as to what is faster and what is the best buy, Im betting it will be about a week before all the reviews are sorted and prices settle and Nvidia drops prices to match and whatnot. needless to say this will be an exciting week in GPU land.

oh and to all the guys complaining about drivers... you expect review sites to RE-BENCH everything in 24hours? are you out of your minds? i remember reading the HWC article on how they bench cards and what goes into your average review. it takes DAYS to get things tunned in, I can remember SKYMTL saying he took about 6 hours per GPU just for the overclocking part of the review, factor that in for two cards and thats 12 hours just to OC the cards let alone bench them... besides do you really thing drivers will make that much of a diff? most games won't benefit at all some may get a 10% boost but on average im betting it's 5% boost if that...