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First post, by appiah4

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I'm considering buying this card in PCI form:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/le … /?productTabs=1

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Does this card in any way leverage the power of dual GPUs in 3D the way Rage Fury MAXX or Voodoo 5 5500 does?

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Reply 2 of 3, by RichB93

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As the chip essentially splits the bus between the two GPUs, is there any performance penalty if you only use one of the chips for gaming? I assume it would just dedicate the available bandwidth to the one chip instead of a 50/50 split between them? I imagine there is *some* overhead by having the bridge inbetween the GPU and bus, but I would hope it isn’t too much! Anyone have any benchmarks to prove this either way?