I've been running the RX480 for the past few years and am now looking for an upgrade. Online I read a lot of mixed opinions. Do you have any experience with crossfire? Should I just buy a new card or crossfire?
Is crossfire worth it?
Tyler Davis
Angel Lopez
yea also got rx 480 cf before the mining craze
it is just hit or miss with game compatibility, its hot and noisy
i sold it and got myself one 1080ti
Anthony Sanchez
How are there still people out there who don't know that multi-GPU is horrible? Truly boggles the mind.
-Game compatibility is AIDS as developers don't care about optimising for multi-GPU because no one has multi-GPU
-Games with multi-GPU support are usually poor implementations and have stuttering
Parker Young
Almost certainly not.
Jack Brooks
>-Game compatibility is AIDS as developers don't care about optimising for multi-GPU because no one has multi-GPU
I know it's not without it's flaws, but it's sort of a thing where the positives outweigh the negatives.
The main factor that tempts me into buying a second 480 is that second hand they are dirt cheap, about 100 euro's, whereas a gtx 1070 sets me back about 350 in my country
Blake Kelly
There are no positives to multi-GPU. Don't do it unless you want to be disappointed. Wait for Navi if you want an upgrade.
Jose Cox
Did it back when it was anew thing. It was alright. If i was you I'd give it a try just for shits and giggles.
Jose Cruz
Buy the better card, then sell yours for 100 euros. now you only spent 100 more for a card that will make up for it in energy savings within a year.
Easton Wright
I tried it. It didn't improve things much, while making some far far worse, and came with all manner of problems to get games to play nice with it. That was when it first came out or a couple years after. I'd just buy a better card than to do crossfire.
Dominic Wright
Don't do it, it's awful. Hot, noisy, power inefficient and what do you get for putting up with all of that? Worse performance than a single card of equal value on average and a bunch of new technical issues you didn't have before.
The only situation you should EVER go multi-gpu is if you own the fastest card on the market and you want even more e-peen while being aware that you're basically throwing your money down the drain for a paperweight that is only good for benchmarking.