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Possibility of 5-Way CrossfireX ?

A viewer asked

“The new X99 [platform] seems to have the ability to run 5 GPUs are there any plans by card makers to enable 5-Way GPU support ?”

AMD-Crossfire-XDMA-Engine-635x331.jpgRoy answered by saying “That’s a great question” “We’ve been astonished, there seems to be no end to the appetite for multi-GPU systems” & then Roy turned to Kevin, Origin PCs CEO & he showed an equally great level of enthusiasm & excitement.

AMD seemed to be very open to the idea of extending multi-GPU support beyond 4 GPUs but real limitations exist in the complexity of the driver software needed to drive such a setup as well as the impracticality of having so many GPUs in one system and the resulting noise & heat. But it really comes down to what the customers want in the end & if AMD & Nvidia for that matter see strong interest in this concept they are sure to pursue it it valiantly.

 

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My question: Why?

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think of the FPS... omg

 

 

but wait!!! think of the STUTTERING.... RUNNNNNNNN

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I don't think I'd personally ever go over 3 GPUs; For 4 asis which isn't new some games from 3 -> 4 have performance hits I woudln't trust 5 plus the HEAT and Powerconsumption 

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My question: Why?

to differentiate from nvidia. AMD will be like we have the best platform for 4k gaming because we can use more gpu 5 290x is greater then 4 780ti 

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i dont see how they could do this because 5 way at x8 would be 40 lanes that is the max lanes so what would you do for sata and m.2 and anything else that uses pci lanes for communication. 

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Can you imagine the amount of power that thing would suck up. :wacko:

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to differentiate from nvidia. AMD will be like we have the best platform for 4k gaming because we can use more gpu 5 290x is greater then 4 780ti 

The scaling goes off the cliff after abut 3 cards. 

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My question: Why?

Because power!

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Normally I welcome any advancement in technology, even if it is minor... but CMON, at least get 2 way crossfire to be better optimized in games, or even supported first. I think that'd be a better focus in technological advancement.

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A10-7850k + 4x R7 250 ... I can play 1080p ultra.. yeaaa!

 

For extreme builders this makes sense but I wouldnt go over 2 GPU per system (gaming system). It really comes down to what you do. But if you need OpenCL performance.. man this can destroy things!

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Let's be honest. It's epeen that's why. Nobody in Their right mind would go for 5 way crossfire, as it's just too damn powerful to run for such little unnoticeable gains.

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My motherboard has five PCI-E slots but that doesn't mean five way GPUs. 

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CFX and SLI already suck for 3 or 4 cards, why add a fifth...

At least get it to scale properly then maybe it will become worth it...

 

At least we now know that anyone who claims they have "5-way CFX" is a complete and utter idiot.

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I can already foresee the immense negative scaling...

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Why not go completely crazy and go for triple 4k eyefinity with 6 way crossfire using 3 r9 295X ?

 

That way each 4k monitor gets  one r9 295x to power it!

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Yeah... 2 is the max for me.

Hell, after dealing with dual GPU's from both sides, 1 GPU is the max for me. Can't deal with twice the space, power and heat being added, but only like 25%-50% extra performance.

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Everyone calm down this innovation shall allow the construction of a proper shrine to GabeN, 2 295x2 and a 290x plus a pcie ssd, plus 2 satae drives in raid 0. The future of holy worship is now

Edit: plus a 5960x

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#CrossfireForNonFullscreen

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