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ssj12 said:
IllegalPaladin said:

Guru3d review,

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5870-review-test/

 

Tom's hardware review,

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5870,2422.html

Quite impressive, even though the GTX 295 and 4870X2  beats it at points. I want to know what the X2 model will be like o.O. The other funny part is the CPU bottleneck in BIA. A Core i7 bottlenecking? that is odd but shows that if that bottlenecks, what type of rig can actually run the game 100%? a skulltrail board?

only if the developers were kind enough to code their program to optimize on 8 cores and 16 threads, which seems a bit unlikely!

I think at this point, it's now in the hands of the programmers to start optimizing their game code to fully utilize 4 cores at the bare minimum if it's a hardware intensive game. Natually, it would be nice to see them even optimizing for 8 threads, but still unlikely as i7 builds still represent a small niche in gaming.