ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[Xello]

I see no reason why two individual cards should be faster.

I.m.o it makes sense that 2 individual cards would be faster (as 2 x 3870's often outperform the 3870X2) - it's a sacrifice made to get both the GPU's on a single slot, a compromise if you like which of course has advantages as well as disadvantages, for example the possibility of crossfire-like performance on boards that don't support it, and obviously Quad-Xfire potential on boards that do

This of course goes for NV's dual-gpu solutions as much as the radeons.