Quote Originally Posted by Metroid View Post
6970 is barely faster than the 570 and yet costs a little more which deducts from the power consumption which makes price and power of both cards even. The 570 overclocks better and that is the difference factor. It looks like AMD backfired on this one, and here I was waiting in hopes the 570 would have the price reduced in a week or 2. No waiting anymore, here I go 570 from 460
In higher resolutions than 1680x1050 the 6970 is rated above GTX 570 and in places where more AA is used.

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...ting_ohne_aaaf

The fact of the matter is that 6970 has more memory "2GB to 1.2GB" and a much higher Memory Bandwidth than the GTX 570 "176 000 MB / s to 152 000 MB / s".

6850 on the other hand seems to be similar to 5870 2GB like GTX 570 is to GTX 480 in performance.