Crossfire or not?

lewis2701 · 27 Sep 2015 at 23:14

Bought an R9 380 a couple of months ago and have since got heavily back into gaming (Witcher 3, GTA V etc). What would be my best bet, another R9 380 and Xfire them or sell up and get a 390/GTX 970?

tommybhoy · 27 Sep 2015 at 23:31

Not.

Get a 390/970 and just enjoy gaming.

fs123 · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:02

Get 390 8GB and crossfire later on if needed for 1440P/4K.

Steveocee · 28 Sep 2015 at 06:50

Not.
Waiting for crossfire profiles is painful and even when you do get them, they never quite work properly. Single card always. (Coming from an ex-x-fire user)

LtMatt · 28 Sep 2015 at 08:13

lewis2701 said:
Bought an R9 380 a couple of months ago and have since got heavily back into gaming (Witcher 3, GTA V etc). What would be my best bet, another R9 380 and Xfire them or sell up and get a 390/GTX 970?

I'd get another 380 and go CrossFire as scaling and performance are great in those titles. You'll get near on double performance.

old gamer · 28 Sep 2015 at 08:44

ive had a few crossfire setups and my experience of them have been pretty good, so go for it i say

pandem0nium · 28 Sep 2015 at 09:31

As it' a 4gb, I'd say go crossfire. If it was a 2gb model then noo way Jose!

2 cards will have enough power to make good use of the 4gb.

Paradiso · 28 Sep 2015 at 12:20

It depends on if upcoming DX12 titles really do make use of crossfire without a profile being needed from AMD. This would be awesome but the games are a way off. I would stick with a single card for now and see how it goes.

pugheaven · 28 Sep 2015 at 16:51

Always the tough question, them games work well with XF, however new games can be an age getting profiles. Personally I love XF but don't get me wrong, for example, we had to wait what 6 months for Dying Light lol profile... can't remember but it was mental... when it came it works really well...

jupiter_man · 29 Sep 2015 at 10:02

get one more 380, my 7990 is still serving me very well
CF profile is not bad nowadays

Minstadave · 29 Sep 2015 at 10:48

I'm on a 7990 and wouldn't touch crossfire again. When it works ifs fine but profiles are slow to come out, they're buggy when they eventually arrive (ie Witcher 3 - flicker and stutter), and some games just don't get profiles at all (has Elite got one yet?).

Some games just don't support Xfire full stop (Wolfenstein).

The only time I really think Xfire is useful is of you've got a top of the range card and need more power. Otherwise if you've got a middle of the range card is just sell it and get a better single card setup.

Paradiso · 29 Sep 2015 at 10:57

Tell me about it 2 x7990's here. one permanently unplugged

I'm just getting back into Elite again and it seems even slower now than it was a few months ago, WTH. I saw a twitch stream of some guy running the same res as me with a bloody GTx770 or something and it was twice as fast at least

bloody joke.

up2nogooduk · 29 Sep 2015 at 11:00

lewis2701 said:
Bought an R9 380 a couple of months ago and have since got heavily back into gaming (Witcher 3, GTA V etc). What would be my best bet, another R9 380 and Xfire them or sell up and get a 390/GTX 970?

I'm running 290X lightning in Crossfire @ 1440p now, on a BenQ XL2730Z 27" 2560x1440 FREESYNC. Runs excellent on bf4 maxed out!

But everyone will always have mixed opinions on crossfire/sli.

up2nogooduk · 29 Sep 2015 at 11:02

AMDMatt said:
I'd get another 380 and go CrossFire as scaling and performance are great in those titles. You'll get near on double performance.

+1

jupiter_man · 29 Sep 2015 at 11:30

Paradiso said:
Tell me about it 2 x7990's here. one permanently unplugged I'm just getting back into Elite again and it seems even slower now than it was a few months ago, WTH. I saw a twitch stream of some guy running the same res as me with a bloody GTx770 or something and it was twice as fast at least bloody joke.

I think Elite and Wolfenstein are the only 2 games that dont not support CF at all.
Personally I get bored with Elite within 1 hour so I am not that fuss with CF profile...

kingsk1n · 29 Sep 2015 at 20:57

Minstadave said:
I'm on a 7990 and wouldn't touch crossfire again. When it works ifs fine but profiles are slow to come out, they're buggy when they eventually arrive (ie Witcher 3 - flicker and stutter), and some games just don't get profiles at all (had Elite got one yet?)..

Exactly the same as me.. will never sli/crossfire again

BluD · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:09

I went crossfire on my 7950 when i felt it needed more power and it was great, its why i didnt hesitate to go crossfire 290x.

Sounds like some people on here havent got on too well with crossfire, the one thing ya can say for crossfire is its a cheap way to get nearly double your FPS, especially in the games you mentioned, but you might not like the micro stutter and flickering you can get like Minstadave mentions.

razorpakk · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:21

With single cards being better than most "cheap" SLI/CF options, I would always opt for selling and buying the single card, if you can sell for a good price.

Sumanji · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:23

I'm always lagging behind the latest game release by several months / years (!!)... if your gaming habits are similar, perhaps that makes waiting for Crossfire profiles a non-issue!

nashathedog · 30 Sep 2015 at 19:54

Minstadave said:
The only time I really think Xfire is useful is of you've got a top of the range card and need more power. Otherwise if you've got a middle of the range card is just sell it and get a better single card setup.

Exactly this, I made the mistake a few years ago with a pair of 7850's.
There's always something that's not working right.
Get the fastest single card you can afford that way you've always got the maximum available power.