Quote Originally Posted by cegras View Post
It's not. For the same price I got vastly improved relative wattage performance, and that's what I wanted. I didn't even want to upgrade - my croacking 4850 finally forced my hand.
Why spend that much if you don't care much about performance? If a 4850 is good enough why not just pick up a 5770 or 6850?

Honestly, you're just an AMD fanboy that likes to complain about the competition at any possible opportunity.

You could have gotten video cards that would have wiped the floor with that 4850 while drawing less power years ago for half the price of what you paid for that 7870. Performance clearly isn't even that important to you.