Daayyyuum, the pure benchmarks (Furmark and Blunderbuss), the 5870 rapes the competition.

That's the next gen boost for you TBH.

The problem with gaming benchmarks, especially comparing old and new gen, is that it doesn't take into account how much of an improvement it would bring, visually, it just goes by pure performance. THe 5870 is no slouch in the FPS category (usually beating everything but the 295), but the improvements, visually, are not taken into account in those tests.

BTW: Is it just me, or shouldn't the NEW generation of cards have more interface memory than the old? the BFG 295 has way more than any of the others? Granted, I don't really know what it's for, but it strikes me that if an older gen card can have so much, why can't a new one? More is better, I'd think, unless it provides no noticable benefit and increases the cost...

Even split between two, it is still on the top (I think another card also had over 400 too).

I'm not talking about the GPU RAM memory, I'm talking about "Interface Memory". It's in the 'bits' size range.