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will the fact that the amd 8350 only uses pcie 2.0s be a bottleneck for crossfire or tri-fire 290 set ups? Does anyone have experience with set ups close to this?
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will the fact that the amd 8350 only uses pcie 2.0s be a bottleneck for crossfire or tri-fire 290 set ups? Does anyone have experience with set ups close to this?
As for 8350 bottlenecking SLI/crossfire: some games yes, some games no;
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/fx-8350-core-i7-3770k-gaming-bottleneck,review-32616-3.html
And:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crossfire-sli-scaling-bottleneck,review-32668-4.html
(both have results across a few pages, both compare against and Ivybridge i7)
Misleading benchmarks are misleading.
The only differences I can see there are at Medium graphics quality or at 1080p. Anyone who uses two 7970s to run a game at 1080p/Medium settings is out of their mind.
On very high resolutions (4800 x 900 and up) the 8350 clearly edges out the 3770K in Metro 2033. How do you like that one Martin?
In BF3 it's a similar story, at Ultra quality the 8350 and 3770K are clock-for-clock identical performers. But the 8350 costs much less.
Egh?
I think with mantle coming in, octa-core 8350s will be very impressive with x-fire/tri-fire. But doesnt help in older games
I have the same feeling... to me that kind of performance for an UE3 game is really weird... and ATM crossfire D3D doesn't really help, even the min fps w/ single GPU is more than the min w/ crossfire...the AVG crossfire fps is just 1 fps more than one GPU... all is doubtful enough... truly gimped DirectX performance (As in, done on purpose) ...