Hmm, I was under the impression that a 6870 could do much more than ~240 mhash/s. If I'm correct, a 5870 will do somewhere in the neighborhood of 300m.
The 5XXX series are very good at number crunching. And some people think that Nvidia has low numbers because it is not optimised for Nvidia, kinda like how Folding @ home works better with Nvidia, but the truth is that Nvidia sucks at number crunching
And some people think that Nvidia has low numbers because it is not optimised for Nvidia
I'm not exactly sure what you meant by that, but you are indeed right in the point you make at Nvidia sucking at crunching numbers. I'm running a brand new MSI GTX 560, OC to 1003 core, and I'm getting ~100 mhash, lol.
Maybe if enough people from a certain place I will not mention get a clue as to how ATI cards are making great headway into the bitcoin project, possibly there would be less "hurr no drivers" arguments. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my housefires and flaming 1.7 wood screws. I made my bed and I'll sleep soundly enough in it.