DAMN! 19% on HAWX from that driver... I am impressed.

Good improvement in Heaven and STALKER as well.

I read the whole article, they showed their numbers and the improvements are there in everything except Arkham Asylum.

I'm not sure what you mean by no facts, the article was probably written over time to detail the course taken. Then given a title afterward.

Besides, we all know sensationalist titles sell.

the article comes out and says

ATI Brings The Hurt To NVIDIA With CATALYST 10.3

And the writer makes it sound like this driver w/5000 series  verses the gtx480 story ,when actuality all it is a driver update story
his first lines out of the gate are ...

If you follow gaming graphics cards you know that ATI and NVIDIA are getting ready for a fierce battle on March 26th when NVIDIA will be releasing their new GeForce GTX 480. The GeForce GTX 480 will be the first desktop consumer graphics card that is based off the long awaited GF100 'Fermi' core, which means that NVIDIA will finally enter the DirectX 11 market for the very first time. Keep in mind that AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card was launched on September 21, 2009! That means that NVIDIA is coming to the game over 6 months behind ATI!  The ATI Radeon HD 5870 has proven itself to be a great graphics card over the past six months and thanks to monthly driver updates, it just keeps getting better.

It's just poor journalism IMO.Twisting a story and making it out to be alot more then it really is .Ya sensationalist would be a good term here as he ruins  his posting Nvida ( truthful but still tacky as most anyone who knows about GPU's knows this already )slams .That didnt need to be even in this story about a new Driver update.Hell imagine if every Nvida driver got this kind of write up with ATI slams and jabs in it ? O the ATI fans would be a crying about it for ever (or 2 weeks when another Beta/whql comes out lol)

Like i said good For ATI a new driver benefits both camps in the end game

Best part of this article

During our conversation with AMD this morning, we also got a heads up that in the next few days an ATI Crossfire profile update is in the works for Battlefield2: Bad Companythat will increase performance by up to 75%!

All i really got out of it and what we all really should is that it just cuts into Nvidia's 10-15% lead that we all keep hearing about .. so it may be hard to show a clear cut winner or one is as good as the other and it will not look like 4870 vs 280gtx this time around as Ati has made the most ground up on this race for the crown..

The modern video graphics adapter is really unified and programable if any and all performance enhancements to come solely from software driver updates during the primary cycle.  It is impressive.  Sometimes I wonder whether these graphics cards have the headroom pre-applied by design and ATI/nVidia gives out a little bit of improvement at a time, as there really is no reason to push it.  What if competition is able to gain an upper hand while your product is already maxed and everyone knows it?  We don't want that, yay for drivers.

I am getting tired  of these threads. what I wanna see are  Videos of these  so called improvements with before and after driver updates.. so far all Ati is doing is total BS! if its on a site that says it happened with no proof whatsoever..I want hard EVIDENCE, not heresays..VIDEOS, or get the  heck away from me with that crap..

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I am getting tired  of these threads. what I wanna see are  Videos of these  so called improvements with before and after driver updates.. so far all Ati is doing is total BS! if its on a site that says it happened with no proof whatsoever..I want hard EVIDENCE, not heresays..VIDEOS, or get the  heck away from me with that crap..

Nobody really cares what you want or forced you to read this thread.  The title kind of gave you a good indication as to the content, but you looked anyway so stop your whining. 

When i bought my card back in Nov i ran Vantage with it and short after Ati released a driver that gave me 1000+ boost on the gpu score so i was impressed back then and if i remember right Ati stated (for Nvidia back in Dec) that there cards was not yet at full power ..

so i would say they have backed up there word but from what i understand Crossfire is the one that will see alot of speed as Dirt 2 was 30% faster for the 5970 .

LOL.  I bought my 5870 expecting to meet Jesus himself when it arrived.

Well,  nice card, but it isn't that much better than my GT 280SSC.    I would call it evolutionary, not revolutionary.   I am seeing maybe 20% increases game for game.    

So far,  underwhelmed by DX11.  The feature I am really itching to try is EyeFinity.  I have 2 more monitors on order and will see next week, but from what I read,  I may need a second 5870 to really use it.  

The gray/rainbow screen crashes are back with 10.3a for me. 10.3 preview was flawless. Reinstalled the preview drivers and it went away. Can't say I recommend these, something seems to have changed for worse.

10 min furmark 10.3a = gray/rainbow screen crash /w sound loop
1hr furmark 10.3 preview = stable

notice how they max out uni engine as high as you can take it and at stock clocks got 40fps average, nvidia left some setting all the way off like anti aliasing and astrophic, those impact the score and fps the most, nvidia reps are hiding the fact that it just cant handle it.

fanboy:  thanks.   i am salivating in anticipation and have already resigned myself to buying another 5870 though.  

must have massive resolution AND eye candy :)