Quote Originally Posted by DarthShader View Post
It's based on pure logic of product positioning. It has to beat the 6870 convincingly, so at least 5% faster and cannot get too close to the 570, so not more than 10% faster, since it would get within another 10% to the 570.

Pure logic from benchmarks of the GTX 460 (overclocked) vs AMD's current mid range line up convincingly indicate that the GTX 560 will come out ahead of the 6870, and if overclocked to 1 Ghz+ will strongly rival the GTX 570 / 480 and AMD 6900 cards.

Product positioning is nowhere near as reliable a means of comparison as the chip's specification and benchmark numbers are.