The new Radeon HD 7850 offers performance similar to the Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 570, but at a much lower $260 price point.
Moreover, the Radeon HD 7850 does its job using about half of the power as both of those older boards based on 40 nm manufacturing. As such, the more expensive GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-core loses its recommendation entirely.
Read our full review of AMD's Radeon HD 7800 series for more information on the card and its accompanying architecture.