Err, why?
If TMU's are the limiting factor on HD3870 as I believe well there are twice as many of them. Shouldn't it be twice as fast?
That is why I didn't get why early sources claimed RV770 might be 30-40% faster than RV670. It's doubling the most limiting stat (TMU's), 50% increase in shaders (more if clock domains are true), plus a core clock bump to top all that off.
Actually I just did the math and if the shaders are truly clocked at 1050mhz (which is basically just pure rumor) than you get 1.35 clockX1.5X SP's=>2.025X as much shader power as RV670 as well.
That said, those benches do seem too good to be true.