Forget the pictures, I don't watch my pc's guts when I'm chopping air at 15,000ft. Give us some benchies!
This isn't exactly apples-vs-apples, but some of the rhetoric regarding the king-of-the-hill title are relevent in this link.
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=609
With today's crop of GPU's and the cache+clockspeed of the latest CPUs, just about ANY GPU will provide fantastic IQ and framerates with most eye-candy settings in the upper range.
Isn't that all that really matters?