High End Radeons – Then and Now

QUOTE: "Video cards are my job and I love them (most of the time!). For this reason I’m fairly passionate about releases. My frustration with NVIDIA lately has been immense due to big delays and horrible allocation on samples, but I know once I get the GTX 470 and hopefully GTX 480 in my hands, love it or hate it, I’ll be excited.
The HD 5870 and HD 5970 are different cards to the ones we looked at in September and November of last year. With a number of driver updates the performance has increased and if NVIDIA worked on beating the numbers these models launched at, they could well be in trouble. While we understand that the GTX 400 series is more than just a gaming card, for the majority of gamers, that doesn’t matter. It’s going to mainly get reviewed in games and gamers are going to base their decision on the numbers from the games they play. Great tessellation performance, fast Folding@Home numbers and CUDA support aren’t going to help in a lot of the games we play today."
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