That what I thought about the gtx 480. In the end, it only got 3 or 4%. It was 14% faster than a 5870 initially and is now maybe a few points better than that.Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n
For driver improvement I will try to be hopeful because I still can't see AMD screwing up this badly, but reality probably says for a single card, maybe 5% at best and that is not going to happen overnight.
AMD obviously wanted this card to be faster. A beefed up cooler, larger chip and 2x the memory(which is faster and more expensive) and likely a more complex PCB to deal with the power and they charge less than the initial prices of a 5870. Considering how little money they made on the 58xx generation, it doesn't make sense for them to decrease their margins.
If antilles can be 600 dollars and have a non reduced spec'ed 6970(I don't care about power, I bought a ax1200 for that and it is still in the box waiting for a new videocard), I would consider buying that.
But as is, I can see even NV competing pretty well and releasing a deal card to deal with antilles.
Something tells me we won't be seeing so much improvements because the card only has 1536 shaders or 384 real shaders even though I want to believe there is more there. Frigg, I bought a ax1200 and a corsair 800d for a new monster videocard and it has been sitting here for the last six months, nothing really warrants its because we haven't really had any real monster cards(the 5970 was close back in the day, but the specs were reduced like crazy).
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