Performance Increase From Crossfire?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Assassin0706

Assassin0706

Honorable
Dec 30, 2013
119
0
10,710
I have decided i want a little more power, and i have a Sapphire Radeon 7770 1GB OC that i was thinking about crossfiring, i Have PCIEx16 and x4 on my motherboard and a big enough power supply, so what kind of performance boost would i get from that? I play games at 1680x1050 on a single monitor. Also, do i need the exact same card to crossfire, or could i find a 2GB card of a different brand and still crossfire it? does it have to be the Overclocked edition?
 
Solution
Carobthomp
In a lot of cases, I find crossfire/SLI really isn't quite as good as spending the same money on one graphics card that's better. If you are going all out on like a GTX TI, then it might be worth it, but even then, I say just spend the good money on one card, as the performance boost isn't that exponential.
Sort by date Sort by votes
AzisTroyanov

AzisTroyanov

Honorable
Dec 29, 2013
109
0
10,710
I believe you need x8 slot for crossfire. I don't think x4 works.

The performance gains depend on the game. Some like BF4 are optimized for AMD Crossfire and the performance scales nicely. i.e you almost get double performance.

Some games are NOT optimized for crossfire and do not scale at all. i.e only 5% performance increase.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Carobthomp

Carobthomp

Honorable
Nov 12, 2013
204
0
10,760
In a lot of cases, I find crossfire/SLI really isn't quite as good as spending the same money on one graphics card that's better. If you are going all out on like a GTX TI, then it might be worth it, but even then, I say just spend the good money on one card, as the performance boost isn't that exponential.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
AzisTroyanov

AzisTroyanov

Honorable
Dec 29, 2013
109
0
10,710


Yep

+1 to this post
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom