Mintmaster
Veteran
What miracles? The graph you called fake has the 4870 only 21% faster than 4850 in the Tweaktown review you linked. The 4870 CF score is only 27% higher than the 4850.how much of deficits, the 8800 gt is also in that graph and it has ~35% less bandwidth compared to the 8800 gtx and its performance is only 5% less at the highest resolution tested. To expect maricles with the 4870 just because of bandwidth in Crysis, I just can't seem to see where that is coming from.
Only the 2560x1600 scores are messed up, but there the card is running out of memory and all bets on reproducability are off. Tweaktown even said they're using a custom demo.
What do you think people are expecting from the 4870? Most are thinking 35% at best. The only BW scaling needed for that is 12.5% more perf with 50% more BW. Is that so hard to believe? We see similar things with G80 vs G92.