Quote Originally Posted by jeremyshaw View Post
Well, in my opinion, the 500 series kinda caught AMD a wee bit more off guard than expected, so the HD6900 series is more reactive than not. The HD6800 series were right on the dime, however. If you want a GTX570, go get one. I have no qualms for buying from either one (laptops are a different case, for me). Though I typically buy nVidia used, since I hated looking at their 8800 prices when I first started out.
Yup, this is pretty much how I'm feeling too.

Quote Originally Posted by xBanzai89 View Post
For multi monitor the 6900 series are above the GTX 570. The 1280 MB of ram puts a major limitation on the GTX 570 SLI when attempting to do multi monitor. The 2GB of ram on the 6900 series allows a crossfire setup with those cards to easily over come the GTX 570 SLI in multi monitor. This was shown just a few days ago by Kyle @ Hard OCP.

Even if it came down to a single monitor I would still choose a 6950 over a GTX 570. The card is with in spitting distance of a 570. It is $50 cheaper. Hell it is even with a 6970. IMO The 6970 is more of a outcast then any other card atm.
Well, I'm part of the lowly 1680x1050 group of peasants. So I'm not TOO worried about vmem.

As for price, I'll have to look at a few more benchmarks in that case. Because while I knew the 6950 was cheaper, from what I've seen it didn't appear to be all that close to the 570. Like I said, you've at least motivated me to double-check though.