Any plans on optimization?

[Coldfire]

Perhaps you can shed some light on this then. I have a friend who plays using a Geforce 460. According to the benchmarks (i'll let you Google them, they are everywhere) a 5850 performs higher than a 470 (one model above the 460). This friend has his settings all set higher than mine and claims to not have any sort of choppiness at all with a standard HD and a comparable CPU (IIRC he's using a low end i5). How could this discrepancy be explained?

Benchmarks don't tell anything about actual performance in a game. Some benchmarks use lots of post processing, others use lots of data bandwidth and others focus on polygons. Another thing is the optimization(some games favor nvidia, some favor ATI).