Nvidia Benchmarks GTX 480 Against Radeon 5870

[MooMasster716]

I just want a >$150 GTX 260 to max out Battlefield bad Company 2.

 

[Bobnova]

Almost matched it in power. There's always a fairly hefty price premium for the fastest card on the market, no matter how much faster it is. Until the 5970, the 295 was still the fastest card, and was/is $100-$200 cheaper than 5970.

Almost matched indeed, last time i checked they split the gaming benchmarks pretty evenly.
If you want to say that 1-4% in 50% of the games (and loosing 1-10% in 50% of the games) is worth a $70 to $100 price hike, be my guest.
Personally, i think a 50/50 split says they're matched in power.

 

[Amtrak]

I claim (or at least, I expected...) that nvidia could at least come with a card that's superior to any ATI card after showing up 6 months late.

Really...why? I mean, GPUs take years and years of development to go from conception to market; you think being a few months late to the party would result in a vast difference in card performance versus if that same GPU was released on time?