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Grand, the 5970 is literally two ATI GPUs on one card, it is also the ATI flagship enthusiast card, the best of the best, it currently commands the highest performance and therefore, premium on price. The ATI card also has the wider memory interface, 384-bit vs 512-bit which can make a huge difference in performance. It's framebuffer (2gb x2 = 4gb) is also considerably larger even though it is essentially two cards in one. Sadly, even in spite of the piggish power demands and high heat output o…

(Quote from [UR]GrandAndreasK) As I explained in my previous post Grand, you can clock memory high to a degree, but if it's only able to get a certain amount of that bandwidth(again, 384-bit bus vs. 512-bit bus) to the GPU itself, at some point it doesn't matter how high you clock it, it's still getting less data in comparison to the card with the wider bus. Sure speed helps, but bandwidth is always king. The fact the 5970 is literally two cards as one running in Crossfire, makes a world of dif…

Well, at that price plateau Grand, you could stomp the 480GTXs with two 5970s working in quad Crossfire, but honestly it doesn't matter anymore because you spending near a grand(har har) on video cards already. Bottom line: Get the best performing card for the price you can afford. If you're more biased or loyal to one brand or another then your choice is simple, the end.

Heheheheh, I remember my video card when I first got Freelancer, probably got that card back in 2002 or so, I think it was a Geforce 4200 Ti (GF4 series) with like 128 meg DDR framebuffer. I though that card was the $h@t back then, especially for playing Freelancer. Haha!

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Awesomeman, you might want to wait and see how the HD 6870(single GPU) fares before you jump on the dual GPU HD 5970, as from the preliminary reports are showing, the 6870 is nearly on par with the 5970! I suspect since it is a single GPU card, it will be quite cheaper and cooler running as well! http://vr-zone.com/articles/mo…nchmarks-leaked/9700.html

Meh, NVidia's still late to the game, especially with DX11... They have already seceded alot of market share to AMD/ATI over it, particularly the high end where DX11 support is important. As far as the hype of the GTX 580, after the fiasco that is the "Fermi" generation of Nvidia cards, I won't be holding my breath, much less have that kinda of bread for one or have a board that can accept it. Sad to say most high end graphics cards IMHO these days are nothing but "e-penile measuring sticks" fo…