ATi Radeon HD 4870 1GB or Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 896MB

As the title says. I'm kind of torn, the ones that I am looking at are these

ATi Radeon HD 4870:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102801

Nvidia GeForce GTX 260:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814143189


Was hoping for some input, looking for the best card of the two. I was thinking the Nvidia because of the Memory clock.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

I have an earlier version of this one:

MSI GTX 260 Core 216 (OC'd to 655Mhz)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127430

The GTX 260 and the 4870 generally trade blows back and forth, depending on which game titles you're playing. So it's sorta 6 to 1, half dozen to another.

The other thing to look at, is what motherboard you have, and if you're at all interesting in doing Crossfire or SLI.

They perform about the same. If you're Green, the 4870 consumes more watss and puts out more heat.

And if it's an X58 board capable of doing both then SLi is faster.

I'd definitely get the GTX260 - drivers are better, game profiles are better, the loading of software goes better, the footrpint is lighter, you'll get PhysX, CUDA, you can fold at a much higher rate, they overclock nicely and run cooler and quieter, and the ONLY disadvantage is DX10.1 , not really any step above DX10 which the gftx260 handles, so if you generally run XP for games like most people do for awesome compatibility, you'll be using DX9. I forgot to mention the new Nvidia Ambient Occlusion driver which adds great shadowing in games - even older ones.
It's thye GTX260 ALL THE WAY.
How about the free games you get too, warmonger, the other stuff in the Nvidia POWERPAK- all free... all fun.
If some red rooster talks you into the 4890 you've been DUPED.