ATI 6970 = desktop or Marketing crap again?

[SiskoKid]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/304?vs=291

6970M is an underclocked 6850, should be around 12% slower. It still seems to be an update although the iMac has greater resolution which requires more horsepower too.

So I could actually be downgrading in quality if you consider the higher resolution and the underclocked factor...hmm...that puts me in a pickle...

 

[Kendo]

Only look at the GDDR5 results for the 5850M. I would say the 5850M is actually faster when you ignore those DDR3 and GDDR3 results, which are irrelevant.

Is it much faster? I still have no idea where to look for the GDDR5 results. I was basing my claims on gaming benchmarks where the 6750 averaged a few more frames per second on games like Black Ops.

 

[Hellhammer]

Is it much faster? I still have no idea where to look for the GDDR5 results. I was basing my claims on gaming benchmarks where the 6750 averaged a few more frames per second on games like Black Ops.

5850M seems to be around 20% faster in benchmarks. The gaming benchmarks are only done with non-GDDR5 GPUs, at least what my quick look could tell.