OC version or not, it's just a gimmick. Unless you really do appreciate out-of-the-box performance and do not bother overclocking on your own.
Actually at this point, I think what really matters are the coolers. Some people are naturally biased against reference coolers xD

Sometimes, certain brands do offer capacitors that are a lot better, but those usually cost a lot more. For instance the Gigabyte SOC, or MSI Lightning. These appeals to overclockers who wants to challenge the limits with their ultra-pimped up configurations =P

Just my opinion.

Guess what benchmarks are these? =P

Dirt 2, 1920 x 1200 Ultra, DX11, 8xAA, 16xAF


Battle Forge, 5760 x 1080, DX10.1


These are really promising, with increased tessellation performance =)

Crap, I just noticed I posted the same picture xD

Dirt 2, 1920 x 1200 Ultra, DX11, 8xAA, 16xAF


The card with 960 sp is the 6850, while 1120 sp, the 6870.


Now be prepared with some awesome things!



This post has been edited by takuyaSH: Oct 19 2010, 07:05 PM

Er.... Actually, according to the official slides, I would assume the 6870 would be more comparable in size to the 5850 >_> Judging from the die size and advertising, apparent 25% decrease.

900 million polygons/sec compared to the 5850's 725 polygon's per second, tell me that DX11 performance isn't better =P

Basically tessellation is made out of polygons =3

Makes it sound more like a gimmick >_<
Owh, there's also Metro 2033. I think Dirt 2 and Battleforge are better DX11 titles. And maybe even Civ V, although it doesn't actually look that great.

256 rops. That's scary isn't it? xD
Ever wondered how long a 5990 would be if not for the introduction of the HD6000? =P
Just not too long ago, ATI was just like that!

Thought Shader 5.0 was supposed to be established with the RV800 and the GTX400 series....
Hardware progresses too fast!!! Try name me 20 DX11 games >_>

Thanks! Though I was posing more of a rhetorical question >_<