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Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby
I had the impression that one way might favor ATi, and the other might favor Nvidia.
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I suspect that impression is incorrect. The GTX 260 reviewed, like the HD 4780 1GB, has a lot of memory. It was the HD 4870 512MB which was comparatively short on RAM. As they said, there's probably no point in getting a new HD 4870 512MB as a single card at this point. If you need a new card now, get either the new version of the GTX 260, a HD 4870 1GB, a pair of HD 4850s in Crossfire, or a GTX 280, but not a HD 4870 512MB. If you don't absolutely need to buy a new card right now, and BoB SoW is your main use, you might want to wait a bit.
I'm personally expecting an HD 4870 512MB to be quite adequate for BoB SoW, though if through some hideous mischance it comes out in 2012 (not that I think it will, that is just intended as an extreme example), then by that time a HD 4870 of any sort may be getting old and not quite up to the required specification.