Yeah okay maybe I was a bit triggerhappy in calling it threadcrapping but I've seen some, shall we say *biased*, people in the past attempt to spread FUD about HD6xxx. Even now you will see some people on other boards say stuff about how Oct. 22 is not a hard launch and the hard launch will be in November or December, and they end everything with some garbage about how nothing is fact yet, we don't know yet, yadda yadda.
I thought HD 6850s would edge GTX460-1GBs and that HD 6870s would go toe-to-toe with GTX470s, but if these numbers are legit and are representative... note VR Zone did caution that we don't know what DX9 performance is like yet. I still think DX9 is important, especially since I play some DX9 games at EyeFinity resolutions.