My 4870 still handles Skyrim and my 6gb of HD texture and mesh mods... I'd like to get a shiny new card with a bigger number but I can't justify it when what I have works so well still.

I buy AMD systems to keep competition alive, but until AMD starts building graphics cards that can be used competively for distributed computing, specifically einstein@home and similar GPU-centric projects, I'll be sticking with Nvidea products like my GTX580. I sometimes play games on my system, but it's always crunching - 24/7.

I had a 9800GX2 w/lifetime warranty that died. It was replaced with a 480GTX. I am well chuffed by that.

I like AMD products and all, but is PhysOrg really the place to be reproducing marketing blurbs for computer products?

I'd be very interested to see, particularly in a forum like this, some sort of report on say, OpenCL based GPU performance. Some sort of information regarding how well I might be able to crunch numbers with this card.

The one at $250 looks like a very good price-to performance ratio for GPGPU - over 1.7 TFLOPS peak 32-bit, 2GB onboard with 158GB/s memory bandwidth (and that split amongst fewer cores than the higher-end models (though still over 1000)- the memory is usually the bottleneck, but not so much on this card). These also use a much faster PCIe 3.0 connection and I believe can more easily access main memory without processor intervention.

These will be great for memory and bus-bound applications needing maximum single precision performance per dollar. Also, the power use is lower than cards with comparable performance.