crossfire APU + GPU

[x10kuliai]

Hi, I have found that you can crossfire your AMD APU graphics with your PCIE amd GPU.

I use

Amd athlon x4 760k which is beast at overclock.

As for GPU I use MSI radeon r9 270.

I wonder is it able to get performance increase in games if I switch my 760k cpu with APU.

This is the best APU for FM2+ socket of my Mobo that I could find maybe there is better one.

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri 12 Compute Cores (4 CPU + 8 GPU) 3.7GHz Socket FM2+ 95W Desktop Processor AMD Radeon R7 series

If I put it in and crossfire with my r9 270, is there going to be performance increase over my current setup?

[Karumu]

Hi, I have found that you can crossfire your AMD APU graphics with your PCIE amd GPU.

I use

Amd athlon x4 760k which is beast at overclock.

As for GPU I use MSI radeon r9 270.

I wonder is it able to get performance increase in games if I switch my 760k cpu with APU.

This is the best APU for FM2+ socket of my Mobo that I could find maybe there is better one.

AMD A10-7850K Kaveri 12 Compute Cores (4 CPU + 8 GPU) 3.7GHz Socket FM2+ 95W Desktop Processor AMD Radeon R7 series

If I put it in and crossfire with my r9 270, is there going to be performance increase over my current setup?

i believe you can only CF specific cards and the R9 270 isnt one of those.

[antoainb]

You can only do it with DDR3 RAM GPU's like the R7 250, so you wouldn't benefit from it.

 

Linus also made a video on it, check it out:

 

 

Check this one too:

 

[Createinator]

No you will not be able to CF a R9 270... it is limited to low end cards and the performance gains aren't worth the money.

[dragoon20005]

the R9 270 is way faster than the iGPU in the A10-7850K

 

your CPU is fine keep it

 

you only need the APU if you don't have a discrete GPU

[john.weland]

I was looking at building an FM2 rig to replace my FM1 rig. I know its recommended to pair this with the R7 250 line. Will the R7 250X work? Or is the R7 250 base the only one? 

Thanks in advance.

[Kiyuubi]

I was looking at building an FM2 rig to replace my FM1 rig. I know its recommended to pair this with the R7 250 line. Will the R7 250X work? Or is the R7 250 base the only one? 

Thanks in advance.

 

The 250X will not work with the 7850k.  Only Oland GPUs work with the 7xx0 series APUs.  The R7 250X is Cape Verde.

 

To the OP, just keep with what you have.  I just came from a 7850k+R7 250 build (I just put the R9 270 in today), and I am more than doubling my FPS.  You can get a GDDR5 R7 250, though.  

[john.weland]

The 250X will not work with the 7850k.  Only Oland GPUs work with the 7xx0 series APUs.  The R7 250X is Cape Verde.

 

To the OP, just keep with what you have.  I just came from a 7850k+R7 250 build (I just put the R9 270 in today), and I am more than doubling my FPS.  You can get a GDDR5 R7 250, though.  

Thanks for the info, I'm not sold on going with an FM2 APU build I thought though bang for the buck it might be a good option. I'd like to build a tiny system that doesn't take a lot of space. Can run a few VMs for a mini web server and other odds and ends for the work I do, and maybe some decent gaming not that I get much time with the family life going on. I do development and my wife does design so something thats going to be zippy is generally my only real concern.

[Lazmarr]

You can only do it with DDR3 RAM GPU's 

Not entirely true, you cannot crossfire it above a R7 250. However you can get a GDDR5 version of the R7 250 which is significantly faster and better than the R7 250, with it's 2GB GDDR5 VRAM.

You're also able to hybrid crossfire this GDDR5 variant with the AMD 7850K, you will gain very good performance and also very playable frame rates (speculated ~40fps with settings at high, AA off and shadows to medium in games like Battlefield 4 with mantle enabled). With the 2GB vram, you could use 2 monitors and should be playable.

It should be noted, however, that you must have 1866Mhz ram minimum, 2133mhz recommended, to run hybrid crossfire with this GPU.

[dragoon20005]

Not entirely true, you cannot crossfire it above a R7 250. However you can get a GDDR5 version of the R7 250 which is significantly faster and better than the R7 250, with it's 2GB GDDR5 VRAM.

You're also able to hybrid crossfire this GDDR5 variant with the AMD 7850K, you will gain very good performance and also very playable frame rates (speculated ~40fps with settings at high, AA off and shadows to medium in games like Battlefield 4 with mantle enabled). With the 2GB vram, you could use 2 monitors and should be playable.

It should be noted, however, that you must have 1866Mhz ram minimum, 2133mhz recommended, to run hybrid crossfire with this GPU.

to add one thou

 

the R7 250 using GDDR5 will actually have to downclock to match the speed of the iGPU and the VRAM speeds in dual graphics

 

at this point it may just be not worth the money to buy a low end GPU just for dual graphics

[Lazmarr]

to add one thou

 

the R7 250 using GDDR5 will actually have to downclock to match the speed of the iGPU and the VRAM speeds in dual graphics

 

at this point it may just be not worth the money to buy a low end GPU just for dual graphics

Don't think it downclocks with the RAM since you're required to run it using highspeed RAM (1866mhz being the absoloute lowest and 2133mhz being recommended).

http://www.powercolor.com/global/products_features.asp?id=541

For those on a budget, and are looking to running multiple monitors, and may game on it a little, it will be better to purchase this, since it can be bought for ~$100 and can run up to 4 monitors in addition to the monitor the iGPU can run; rather than a mid end GPU. However if they were looking to game on it more and are not wanting to run as many monitors, I would recommend purchasing a mid end GPU such as the R9 270.

[dragoon20005]

Don't think it downclocks with the RAM since you're required to run it using highspeed RAM (1866mhz being the absoloute lowest and 2133mhz being recommended).

http://www.powercolor.com/global/products_features.asp?id=541

For those on a budget, and are looking to running multiple monitors, and may game on it a little, it will be better to purchase this, since it can be bought for ~$100 and can run up to 4 monitors in addition to the monitor the iGPU can run; rather than a mid end GPU. However if they were looking to game on it more and are not wanting to run as many monitors, I would recommend purchasing a mid end GPU such as the R9 270.

yes if the user isnt gaming a lot and need to run multi monitors for multi tasking

 

the 250 is indeed useful

 

for better gaming experience he can opt for the 270/X GPU which can run games at 1080P High