AMD possibility of 5 way crossfire

[Faa]

“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 ?”

Where are they getting this from? No X99 board can take more than 4 gpu's. Like theyre capable of making single 300W slot cards with their reference cooler >.>

[Kukielka]

“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 ?”

Where are they getting this from? No X99 board can take more than 4 gpu's. Like theyre capable of making single 300W slot cards with their reference cooler >.>

 

Ofcourse, pcie extensions.

[Akolyte]

well... mbs with 10 slot width? nvm 2xR9 295x2 + R9 290x hybrid xfire =toast /jk

Plus save money by not getting a stove!  Bacon and eggs done in a minute!

[Faa]

Ofcourse, pcie extensions.

Still won't work on a rampage v extreme. When the black slot is used the one above it gets disabled and vice versa

[Sintezza]

5way sli or crossfire would be totaly pointless.

There a no drivers for it, which support that. (so it will not work in the first place!)

Also the scaling must be horrible.

 

I cannot think about any consumer grade cpu, which would be capable to drive upto 5 highend gpu´s.

Everything beyond dual highend gpu setups, is allready suffering from bottlenecks.

Even Haswell -E does not chance that.

Its just overated pointless bullshit

[NinjaStyle013]

2 R9 295 + A10 ultimate gaming setup

[DigitalHermit]

My question: Why?

 

Why not?

[NeatSquidYT]

I will only ever use 1 graphics card at a time. Why? I'm just against multi-GPU systems unless they're for workstation use. Why? Idk.

[NeatSquidYT]

2 R9 295 + A10 ultimate gaming setup

Won't the A10's CPU bottleneck 295?

[ItsComrade]

y

[Arunas]

Mining power :-D

[Kukielka]

Still won't work on a rampage v extreme. When the black slot is used the one above it gets disabled and vice versa

Asus x99 WS

[NinjaStyle013]

Won't the A10's CPU bottleneck 295?

no shit

[Faa]

Asus x99 WS

Aye http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7613/Chipset%20Diagram_575px.png (isn't any different for the x99 ws)

The WS boards are the only boards that are capable of running more than 4 cards. Anyways they aren't requiring you to run 5 cards but something like a 295x2 and 3 290x's or just two 295x2 and 1 290x or even perhaps 3x 295x2 (3rd one will have one gpu disabled) would work out on a RVE. You don't necessarly need a WS board, but Asus was planning to bring a single slot 295x2 out as ares 3. Why not just do 6 way instead?

Just two 295x2 in crossfire can manage to pull 1230W without any proper load on the CPU, imagine a 3rd 295x2 and a 5960x at 4.5GHz (can pull 350W alone in prime95) you'd be needing atleast 2 AX1500i's for a worst case scenario. You'd prefer to have such a system in your basement and 30m DP/USB/Audio cables in the summer. 

 

 

Everything beyond dual highend gpu setups, is allready suffering from bottlenecks.

This.

I agree with what you said but most reviews who tested 4way SLI/CF weren't even mentioning anything about being cpu bottlenecked or not - theyve been mainly telling us that is scales crap. 

Between 10 & 30secs it was scaling nicely but after 30secs you notice the CPU bottleneck was kicking in rofl. In my testing when you usually have a cpu bottleneck, youre having a lil bit better performance with a single card than two. You can see lots of them here: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Radeon-R9-295X2-CrossFire-4K-Quad-Hawaii-GPU-Powerhouse/Test-Setup

In BF4, Crysis 3 there was nearly a 100% gain but in Metro there was complety no difference (perhaps cpu bottleneck). There's just not enough single threaded performance to saturate this kind of GPU horsepower and the lack of proper multithreading (5960x outperforming 4670k by 100%). It's just a shame that reviewers are missing the point that their CPU is perhaps hitting its limit with their "godly" knowledge before acusing the drivers/scaling being bad.

[JoshM6789]

They need to fix/improve 4 way first!

[7850OC]

i can see a "6 way" crossfire on AMD future  (we don't need crossfire bridges anymore after all)

 

3x R9 295X2 (why not)  B)

[Andrew48]

MOOOOOAAAAARRRR    POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AnthonyPaull]

4 Way CF>4 way SLI. Nvidia's SLI is, honestly, crap compared to Crossfire. With crossfire the diminshing returns mean you get about 3.5 cards of performance out of 4, whereas SLI means you only get 3. 

 

TBH 5 way CF would probably be used to render **All of the things** really quickly. The only gaming application I can think of would be 6 4K displays...

[That Norwegian Guy]

TBH 5 way CF would probably be used to render **All of the things** really quickly.

 

Cards used for rendering do not need to be in SLi/ Xfire. And they typically only need an x4 or even lower speed link.

 

Which is why I want seven of those single slot ELSA GTX 750 Tis to put in an ASUS X99 WS board

[VulsaviiK]

My question: Why?

 

Because there's those one or two people that'll hurl that kind of money and brag about how great that one game that supports it is

 

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

 

*cough* Titan Z *cough*

 

That is all. Seriously 2 cards is enough for me, I'd rather just wait and spend that money on buying new cards later

[Brainless906]

heres what i see in ~ 4-6 months

"Nvidia announces 5 and 6 way sli, LTT forum literally dies because of the mass excitement and innovation!"

 

 

circle jerk aside i really dont understand why this is a thing either...I'm hoping it was just something that came about while working on the xfire tech and not something they were actually dedicating time to specifically....

[Stomplar]

im not partial to either the green or the red team, but damn this is gimmicky. and way out of the price ranges for the majority of people.

[bcredeur97]

id laugh if going from 4 to 5 is like a 3-5% gain in performance

[bcredeur97]

im not partial to either the green or the red team, but damn this is gimmicky. and way out of the price ranges for the majority of people.

not if u buy 5 mid range GPU's

 

 

im jk. you have to be retarded to do that

[patrickjp93]

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!

You wouldn't use XFire/SLI for compute workloads most of the time. You'd use the cards individually over a HUGE dataset.