Quote Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650 View Post
ya if rumored pricing is to be believed it will be a much better bargain then the 580, but it's always been that way, you want the fastest card you pay for it... however Nvidia will NEED to drop prices for sure. However im just wondering by how much, historically AMD cards have not treated the Canadian market very nice in the way of pricing compared to Nvidia (or at least the e-tailers i use which are the cheapest around BTW) im hoping to see the 6970 for no more then $400 (350 would be golden) and the 6950 for around $300, that would hopefully drop the GTX 580 to 450-400 and the GTX 570 to 300ish (considering it is already at 350ish)

your on to something with the DX11 to. Considering a 6870 or GTX 460 can run most DX9 or DX10 games to the max already, DX11 games are whats important and it's good to see AMD making improvements there. it just a shame that so far it does not seem to the 40% faster then God card that people hyped it out to be
Outside of Metro 2033, there really isn't anything you can't play on the GTX 460/6870 maxed out unless you're on a 30" monster monitor or you absolutely refuse to play under 60fps. I've started back up that game(as games like this I usually will only play if I can max it) and to keep it 100% playable I've dropped it down to 720p(TV for monitor) 4xMSAA maxed. Still looks great and all, but really this is the only game I've had issue with on this card. 720p though remains 100% playable, and I probably could do 1600x900 but I have a feeling it'd get some slow-down in some spots.

It's kind of funny how lately we've had more GOOD video cards than we've had GOOD games come out that take advantage of those GOOD video cards. Both companies really have been bringing their A game, just wish we had the games to take advantage of that fact.