Should I crossfire?

Denoahnator · Aug 26, 2013

Since I built my computer last year I've wanted to buy a better GPU but because I was on a budget I settled for the AMD A8-5600k APU for the time being and it has works well for most games I play, but I want to upgrade so I can run a bunch of new games that are coming out (such as assassin's creed 4 and possibly BF4 but much less likely).

So I am trying to choose between a Radeon 6570 and I would try to crossfire that with the integrated chip in my APU or a GTX 650 TI and disable the integrated chip. What I'm wondering is which will perform better (Remember I'm going to crossfire the Radeon).

clutchc · Aug 26, 2013

You'd probably come out ahead just going with the GTX 650ti. CF with the APU's on-die GPU has some problems. And not all games will recognize the dual graphics as CF.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-graphics-crossfire-benchmark,3583.html

larkspur · Aug 26, 2013

Don't Crossfire with the APU. They call that "dual-graphics". Benchmarks look decent but actual visual quality is very choppy: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-graphics-crossfire-benchmark,3583-10.html

A 650ti is much better or anything in that price/performance range (7770, 7790, 7850) will give you much, much better performance and experience than going dual-graphics.

Denoahnator · Aug 26, 2013

clutchc :

Thanks for the reply, that's what I assumed by reading other posts about crossfire. Do you think the 650 ti will be able to run lets say battle field 3 on medium to high (maybe ultra)? (not that I am but bf3 is pretty graphic intensive game and if it can run that it should be able to run most things right?) Mainly I want to play assassins creed 4 when it comes out and as of right now I can play assassins creed 2 on medium with 30-40fps.

clutchc · Aug 26, 2013

Denoahnator :

I built a budget rig with this 650ti and a FX-6300 awhile back for someone: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130841
It was able to play BF3 at 1080p with most settings maxed out. It comes overclocked from the factory and has a bit more headroom than the stock model if you want to push it even faster.

Denoahnator · Aug 26, 2013

clutchc :

Denoahnator :

I built a budget rig with this 650ti and a FX-6300 awhile back for someone: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130841
It was able to play BF3 at 1080p with most settings maxed out. It comes overclocked from the factory and has a bit more headroom than the stock model if you want to push it even faster.

What I'm looking at buying is this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130838
Is there any big performance difference?

larkspur · Aug 26, 2013

There is a big performance difference and particularly SMOOTHNESS of using a 650ti instead of dual-graphics yes.

Try this card instead, it's a 650ti BOOST which is more powerful than the regular 650ti you linked: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130914

Denoahnator · Aug 26, 2013

larkspur :

Well usually when I buy stuff it depends on the reviews and on the one you linked 5 out of the 11 reviews complain about the card crashing. It doesn't look much better than the normal 650 ti, Thanks for the suggestion none the less but I will probably go with the one I chose.

larkspur · Aug 26, 2013

I understand. I didn't notice all those reviewers with issues, just looking for bang-for-buck and good brand names. It doesn't sound like much but there is a significant difference between the regular 650ti (128-bit memory system and lower clocks) and the 650ti boost (192-bit memory system and higher clocks). The difference can be viewed here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/781?vs=782

For the small diff in price, the diff in performance is pretty big. How about this one from MSI? Good brand, should be a great card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127731

Denoahnator · Aug 27, 2013

I'm looking at one from EVGA with pretty much all the same specs but it has 2GBs of memory instead of one, is there a notable difference between 1 and to GBs? If not I might go with this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130915

The 2GB one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-130-909&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=3#scrollFullInfo

larkspur · Aug 27, 2013

The 2gb would be worth it. Most modern games can exceed 1gb of vram use especially when you turn on anti-aliasing.

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