Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
i think it could
look at the 6850xfire reviews, its 20% more SPs (1920 vs 1600), but the clock speed of the 6870 is also 16% higher. so in theory a 1600ish SP barts core at 900mhz would be near identical to a 6580xifre

and the reviews are showing that being super close to a 5970 and beating a 480, so i feel confident that 1600SP @ 900mhz using the same improvements of Barts, would prove to be very deadly. (and this is all based on xfire scaling efficiency, which might be alot lower than a single larger gpu with better memory speeds)
In Crossfire you have a duplication of ALL hardware parts, something that probably would not happen with a single GPU with 1600 shaders
Thats my point actually, that generic_user already talked about... What matter is not that shaders, but all the chip organization.