We have absolutely no idea how valid these results are. Yet there are some results floating on the web showing regarding ATI's upcoming ATI HD 4870 512MB ATI HD 4870 versus the 1GB GeForce 9800 GX2. Included are Crysis and 3DMark06 results.

Let me state that anyone can make this stuff up and re-produce some nice charts. But if true .. very interesting as it would certainly seem that the new Radeon is an impressive contender. A well .. fingers crossed.

Apparent test system:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 @ 3.00GHz
ASUS P5E3 Deluxe
2×1GB OCZ DDR3 1333MHz 9-9-9-26
Western Digital 250GB 16MB SATA2 7200RPM
1GB GeForce 9800 GX2 - 600/1500/2000mhz
512MB ATI HD 4870 - 800/3400mhz (gDDR5 ?)

The results: