I need help

[chrisneedshelp]

I what to crossfire my RX 570 but i don't whant a two of them so is there a cheeper card that will crossfire with it.

[WhitetailAni]

Why do you want to run CrossFire? Most games don't support multi-GPU anymore.

[Eighjan]

1 hour ago, chrisneedshelp said:

I what to crossfire my RX 570 but i don't whant a two of them so is there a cheeper card that will crossfire with it.

That is pretty much what Crossfire &/or SLi are all about; combining the power of two identical (ideally) graphics cards to maximise their power, where no better card was available.

 

However; it got to be too uneconomical to do, practically - as well as difficult to code - on top of which later generations of cards got way more powerful & power efficient, so game developers stopped taking multi-GPU setups into account in the games

 

With effect from the 30-series, nVidia dropped any option for multi-card setups, for their general purpose cards.

 

I'd save the money you would've spent on a second card, flip the 570 you have & pool the funds on an overall better card.

[Failman]

This is not the answer you were looking for but, as someone who tried crossfire on one of his systems... it was an experiment with two RX480s 8gb for 3 months at the end of last year and here are the results :

 

- first of all, you need enough pci lanes. Have two pci slots in x8 mode directly to the cpu as going through chipsets is usually not very good for smoothness.

 

- very few games support crossfire. When not supported at all, the game will either fail to launch, have visual corruption especially on shadows, or will have performance worse than if you used a single card. Sometimes get lucky, sometimes not. First check your games here : https://amdcrossfire.fandom.com/wiki/Crossfire_Game_Compatibility_List

 

- most of the time, even when fully supported, it scales poorly - in the best cases you will see +80% framerate but it is rare, most of the time you do not even reach +50%

 

- frametimes become terrible, so your gaming experience becomes poor as you get hiccups and stuttering

 

- from one AMD driver to another, it may break or fix crossfire, it was very random

 

- you need enough spare vram to Crossfire, the vram does not add up. I recommend at least 6gb.

 

After 3 months of frustration and horrible gaming experience, here is my conclusion: Don't do it. It is a terrible idea. I agree with @Eighjan .Save up, sell your card, and buy a better one.

[DobertRownySr]

I don't know what's worse, the spelling or the profile picture.

[chrisneedshelp]

thank you all