Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
Long story short...Yes.

Neither company has put the emphasis on the high end that they were doing with the huge jumps up until ATi couldn't keep up in the high end battle any longer, which slowed things down by half when it comes to the speed increases per generation.



Didn't stop people from comparing the 4870 x2 to the GTX 280, did it?

Most of us compare the top-end of NVidia with the top-end from ATi, regardless of if it's dual-gpu or not. Myself, I still refuse to presently buy dual-gpu cards(although, with the price of the 4850x2 it has been tempting) because one little driver bug and you lose half the performance.

Either way, I'm still disheartened by these numbers... Guess the HD 4850 will have to last me a bit longer than I hoped.
im not those people i just go for single cards/dual cards as diff then i also do it by price.. like a £300 card should not be compared to a £400 card and vice versa

(and I agree, ill never have a dual gpu card thats another reason why I separate them too many problems from both sides)