Just like BestJinjo has pointed out over and over again. I just caught wind of AMD's aggressive price cuts, thanks AMD Gaming's Facebook page. It's a TechReport article:
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/23447 Though they're one of the sites that made a review that put the GTX660Ti in favor, not that I'm saying they're evil as one commenter here on TH, maybe blazorthon or the article writer "Cleeve," mentioned, the results vary with the games and settings used in the tests.
I remember you too got an HD 7850 or two, blaz. Kinda sucks for us eh? Hehehe... But what can you do... Prices really just have to drop sometime.
That's really something though, being able to buy the HD 7870 for the old price (I think) of the HD 7850, but you did mention, blaz, put in another way, when properly overclocked, the performance difference with those two cards may be negligible. Or did I misunderstand what you meant by "...can overclock almost as far in performance ... maybe just as far."?