I just noticed this now but these cards seem to be anti aliasing monsters. What ever ATI did, it did the trick. Matching the 280 at 1920x1200 8xAA is damn impressive. As long as VRAM isn't a bottle neck, these should be awesome cards for high IQ gaming.
As far as skipping CF, its either 2 Ati cards or 1 280 for me. I'd sooner have nearly as good performance in non supported games and noticeably better performance in supported games considering this is the same price we are talking. That may change though as I can't see Nvidia staying competitive with the 4870x2 ( or even the 4870 for that matter ) with their current prices.
As far as power consumption goes though all the cards of this performance level have basically used alot of power. Considering the dual gpu cards use just as much if not more than a 280, its nothing to complain about really. Less would still be better but I still find it weird that a 4870 which has roughly 400 million less transistors, runs lower voltage and uses half as much vram ( which is more efficient as well ) as the 280 yet still peaks around the same amount? Something has to be wrong there.
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