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I'm sorry, but it's funny to read everyones comments here and see how ignorant most of you are with regards how it all works.
It's easier to design a product that has several PCB layers and generally you don't have to worry to much about trace layout, as you can put the traces that might cross on different layers thus avoiding this problem.
Most manufacturers that do their own designs, be it of motherboards or graphics cards will change the reference PCB and thus the traces won't be the same either.
Less layers doesn't always mean an inferior product as a lot of the time it's just a sign of a more mature product where the companies have figured out how to streamline their manufacturing.
As long as the company is question has come up with an electrically sound design then there's no reason why a product using fewer PCB layers should be worse than one with more layers as long as the rest of the components are the same.
Yes, it might affect overclocking, but again, this is depedant on much more than the PCB layers.
Most motherboard reference designs are made in 8 layers but are generally reduced to 6 layers when possible. I very much doubt anyone is using less for motherboards these days as they're just far to complex.
Depening on the layout of the power circuitry on these boards it should be very possible to make a card with less PCB layers that overclocks just as well as the current models, it just takes a little bit of time and efford from the board makers.
However, the smaller companies are unlikely to want to spend the R&D resources to come up with such a design unless they really have to, as it's not done in five minutes.