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Wanting to CF a HD 7950, but its discontinued.

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December 25, 2013 10:30:06 PM

I recently built a gaming rig, and my original plan was to purchase a second Radeon HD 7950 down the line when I got more money. Well now that I have the money, all of these cards are out of stock. I'm really looking to crossfire, is there anything I can do? I'm wondering if any of the new R series (280x 290 290X) would be able to work in my setup. Or am I just stuck selling the 7950 and buying two new cards. Power is not an issue in my rig.

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December 25, 2013 10:33:49 PM

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December 25, 2013 10:40:21 PM

You can crossfire with an Tahiti GPU that is with R9-280x which is basically a HD7970 graphics card without issues. But you actually lose some performance out of 280x max performance due to crossfiring with a HD7950 GPU
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December 25, 2013 10:43:43 PM

spp85 said:
You can crossfire with an Tahiti GPU that is with R9-280x which is basically a HD7970 graphics card without issues. But you actually lose some performance out of 280x max performance due to crossfiring with a HD7950 GPU


Thanks for that info, but how much of a loss are we talking about? Would it be worse to crossfire the 280x with the 7950 then just leaving my current setup alone?
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December 26, 2013 3:55:57 AM

wotot2 said:
spp85 said:
You can crossfire with an Tahiti GPU that is with R9-280x which is basically a HD7970 graphics card without issues. But you actually lose some performance out of 280x max performance due to crossfiring with a HD7950 GPU


Thanks for that info, but how much of a loss are we talking about? Would it be worse to crossfire the 280x with the 7950 then just leaving my current setup alone?


You just get two 7950 like performance, so the extra performance left with the 280x is what you lose. On a later date If you upgrade the 7950 you had now to 280x as well then you get full performance from both cards. Hope you understood that. To double check everything you may email the topic to AMD customer support as well.
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December 26, 2013 8:39:31 AM

spp85 said:
wotot2 said:
spp85 said:
You can crossfire with an Tahiti GPU that is with R9-280x which is basically a HD7970 graphics card without issues. But you actually lose some performance out of 280x max performance due to crossfiring with a HD7950 GPU


Thanks for that info, but how much of a loss are we talking about? Would it be worse to crossfire the 280x with the 7950 then just leaving my current setup alone?


You just get two 7950 like performance, so the extra performance left with the 280x is what you lose. On a later date If you upgrade the 7950 you had now to 280x as well then you get full performance from both cards. Hope you understood that. To double check everything you may email the topic to AMD customer support as well.


Thanks so much!!! That makes perfect sense.

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