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Can you CrossFire connect R9-270X with HD7850?

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I am running a Sapphire Dual X AMD Radeon HD 7850, and i am planning to buy a Gigabyte R9-270X and I was wondering whether I would be able to connect them both by CrossFire.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

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I am running a Sapphire Dual X AMD Radeon HD 7850, and i am planning to buy a Gigabyte R9-270X and I was won....

There may be some modded driver of the sorts, but I wouldn't I would get two 270x as the 7850 will hold it back 

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Not likely.

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There may be some modded driver of the sorts, but I wouldn't I would get two 270x as the 7850 will hold it back 

I just got the HD 7850 last November. Is it worth buying a new R9-270X or should I wait till next year or something?

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Yes.

It will disable the cores tha are disabled on the 7850 and if your 7850 has 1GB VRAM, it will disable the 1GB on the 270X as well. If that's true don't do it because 1GB isn't enough.

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I just got the HD 7850 last November. Is it worth buying a new R9-270X or should I wait till next year or something?

I would wait till next generation of cards if I were you anything below a 280x won't be a well worth upgrade for you 

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It should crossfire since they are the same GPU, but the 270X will be limited to 7850 performance. There would be no reason to get a 270X over a 270 or HD7850/7870 if you can find them cheaper. 

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Yes you can

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I am running a Sapphire Dual X AMD Radeon HD 7850, and i am planning to buy a Gigabyte R9-270X and I was wondering whether I would be able to connect them both by CrossFire.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

The older 7850 uses a finger method to crossfire between cards, while the newer 270x crossfires through the pci express. So it will be incompatible. The 270x will have to downgrade and down perform to twin the 7850. 

 

this is not possible, or recommended as they are both different architecture GPU's. Sorry.

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You can but the frame latency will be higher due to the variation in frame rendering times between both GPUs due to the performance delta.
I'd Crossfire a 290 with a 290X since both have a hardware frame timer but not on Pitcarin (270X,270,265,7870 & 7850)

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Sorry I'm so late. I can confirm this is possible because I am currently running a setup with these two cards crossfired happily. No latency, no micro-stutter, nothing.

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