Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
Or that the 58xx's have been heavily optimized over their life time

Look at 5870 scores at release (they trailed the 4870X2 in a lot of cases) and where they are today (no competition at all whose faster, the 5870 even nips on the 480 in certain cases)
Still it's stupid to buy a card assuming it's going to get better with drivers.

If you remember, GTX 570 and 580 are very new too. If AMD can get their cards better with drivers, so can Nvidia.