Evernessince
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Lol what?
The 580 was going against the HD 6970 (and it did beat it, most of the time anyway) and if we're talking about AMD's newer tech, HD 7870 absolutely destroyed the GTX 580, lol. The HD 7970 was twice as fast as the 6970 and today it's probably more than twice faster, also more than twice faster than the 580 as well probably. The 7970 these days is smacking the GTX 780 around.
The AMD 200 series competed against Nvidia 700 series, not the 7000 series from AMD.
AMD has released many great cards, and flickering has plagued them for years. You'll still constantly see it as an issue in driver changelogs. I remember flickering so bad when using two 6950's to run Crysis 2 and BFBC2 after BF3 was already out. Let's just say I was very disappointed.
I remember the flickering as well. It was very annoying. I tinkered around with my 7970 and ended up fixing it by flashing the BIOS. It wasn't really a fix though, as it require you to increase the 2D clocks.