According to Anandtech, the 6970 goes head to head with the GF480...I think this is pretty impressive..I don't know why some of you folks in here find this card to under-achieve.....this card was intented to compete against the 480 and so it does......and remember, in CF mode these cards are very powerfull....what did you most expect to see from these cards anyway? they are still under the 40nm technology....blame the semis...for the delay of course.