New mac pro with ATI video card & 2x 24" displays??

is it possible to connect two 24" apple displays to the new mac pro using the ATI video card?

2 nVidia cards doesn't buy you any performance increases. They don't talk to each other to improve performance in Mac OSX. Multiple cards is mostly for supporting multiple displays. How many displays do you have?
Apple has some initial performance benchmarks:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/graphics.html
Scroll down to see the graphs. The HD4870 destroys the GT120
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