crossfire 290 with 290x worth it

lindseyhunt1090 · Nov 18, 2013

hey guys. weird question. i bought a plain amd 290. works great with 1080p. i now have a 1440p monitor and it struggles on bf4. i was looking at benchmarks of the 290 for 1440p and the 290x crushes it bad at higher res due to the higher stream processors. so if i were to buy a 290x and crossfire it with my plain 290 would it be able to take full advantage of the extra stream processors or would it dummy the 290x down to a 290 level?

robnof · Nov 18, 2013

No it would only perform as well as the weaker link. The weaker link being the R 290. Not that either are even remotely weak.

lindseyhunt1090 · Nov 18, 2013

robnof :

thanks for the quick response. ok. question number 2. now that i know that ill get another 290. now the non reference cards are coming out soon.. can i run two different frequencys? say 1000/1300 on the stock 290 and what ever the non referance cards make. say 1200/1400? would that work? or again gets dummied down to the slower card?

robnof · Nov 18, 2013

Both cards should run at the same clock settings, and run both at the lower clocked card's settings.

airplanegeek · Nov 18, 2013

you can use have different clock speeds for different cards but that would create huge frame latency problems

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