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The 7770 is pretty much half everything of the 7870, so expect about half the performance... the 7850 is in the middle of these two. I think you will be able to play most games fine with the 7770 just not on max setting. The 1 GB vram on the 7770 could be problematic in the future, especially if...

Thanks for all the feedback! As railven said, the gaming performance isn't the problem, it is the computing performance. I originally got the 5870 because I wanted to play around with OpenCL programming. In that regard the 6950 is performing much worse than the 5870, even though it is slightly...

Thanks for the input! My impression from the anandtech benchmark is that the 5870 is about 20% faster at compute performance. These bitcoin mining benchmarks show similar results: 393/333 = 118 % (333 is average for 6950 cards excluding the unlocked ones, (the replacement is hw-locked)) I...

I had my Radeon HD 5870 card serviced recently because of a failing fan, when I returned to pick it up the sales person informed me they have replaced it with a newer and better card (Radeon HD 6950) because they couldn't find a replacement for the 5870. (The perfectly fine 5870 was sent for...