Yeah don't argue with me please, I'd rather have a conversation with someone who actually knows what is going on.
Not with someone who can't get settings right, only runs 33% of the Crysis 2 tests, then does random settings which net him 50%+ performance over another 7970 from an additional 175Mhz overclock.
Neither of the screenshots you posted detail the settings you used in either benchmark, so the best any of us could do was guess. Nice attempt at making your benchmarks as ambiguous as possible so you can hide behind them. Here are the Crysis 2 runs on my card at exactly the settings you specified:
And look at that! Your cards are only 4.8% faster in the first test, the test you condemned, but are actually 5.1% and 7.3%
slower in the second and third tests, respectively. That's a far cry from the "30-50%" faster you claimed, isn't? You'll also notice that my minimum FPS are anywhere from 2.3 to
4.5x higher than yours. So I'm getting faster and smoother performance. But no, GTX 470 SLI is 30-50% faster, right?
Also, I enjoy how you've changed this to a "price/performance" argument now, since your points were so thoroughly refuted. Did you not write within this very same thread:
And if it isn't faster, they'll talk about performance per watt and price vs performance.
The key to victory is changing the conditions to suit your needs.
The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.