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Official_flaiR

Official_flaiR

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Good day everyone!

I'm making this thread in hopes that someone could answer a few questions for me.
I've been considering buying a new graphics card for sometime now, but I feel stuck between 2 choices. I could either buy a new RX 480 (8GB) or buy a second Radeon R9 270X (2GB) to Crossfire with my current one. I've seen people who use dual GPU's and get really good performance for the price and I just wondered if doing dual R9 270X's would be worth it since I could pick up a second one for only $80 vs the RX 480 for $240. Another question would be is if it would be better to upgrade to the RX 480, could I still use my R9 270X with it? I know both graphics cards have different chip sets, but would they still be able to work together?

My system specs are:
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2680 (8 core, 16 thread @ 2.7ghz)
Motherboard: Intel DX79TO
GPU: PowerCooler Radeon R9 270X (2GB)
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 (2x 4 GB sticks) (will be getting another 8gb's soon)
PSU: Ultra LSP 650 Watt

Thank you,
flaiR
 
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You cannot crossfire an R9 270X and and RX 480, they are different chipsets.

I had a pair of R9 280's crossfired that I sold to buy my RX 480. While in benchmarks the Crossfire cards came in a little faster, in real life the RX 480 outperforms it in both smoothness, and not having to tweak every game just to get it to work (and not all games support it). I highly recommend against crossfire or SLI after my experience, and the experience of other users here. Generally its only good if you already have the highest end card and you want to go faster.
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there both based on gcn architecture but there not interchangeable. so you cant crossfire a 480 with a 270.

your rite in that 2 cards will often perform better than 1 but not always. not every game supports x2 cards and even then the results can be hit and miss.
add in the 2 gig frame buffer will be more of a limitation on new releases.

i would say sell the 270x you have and put that towards the cost of a 480.

nice cpu btw...
 
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You cannot crossfire an R9 270X and and RX 480, they are different chipsets.

I had a pair of R9 280's crossfired that I sold to buy my RX 480. While in benchmarks the Crossfire cards came in a little faster, in real life the RX 480 outperforms it in both smoothness, and not having to tweak every game just to get it to work (and not all games support it). I highly recommend against crossfire or SLI after my experience, and the experience of other users here. Generally its only good if you already have the highest end card and you want to go faster.
 
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Thank you for the replay.

I knew 2 cards were pretty fast and since I could buy a 2nd one for a cheap price, I thought it would have been a good choice. You are right in the fact that SLI/Crossfire and not supported in all games and some will only use one GPU, making some games run the same or with less FPS. In the end I'll probably sell my R9 270X once I can purchase the RX 480 and use that to buy some more ram.

Thanks again,
flaiR
 
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