AMD possibility of 5 way crossfire

[kevin28115]

cryptocurrency mining rig anyone?

[patrickjp93]

cryptocurrency mining rig anyone?

NO! That era is done. ASICs and FPGAs are the only way forward on that front anymore, and it's not even worth it.

[RexinOridle]

This is where you really need mantle and freesync. But also 5 15x GPUs in a rig will mean better performance on CAD and Adobe software. I hope this works properly.

[kevin28115]

NO! That era is done. ASICs and FPGAs are the only way forward on that front anymore, and it's not even worth it.

make sure to tell college students that live in dorms that they have free electricity

[sqwidee]

The law of diminishing returns is gonna hit your wallet like a truck tho...

 

Moar is always better tho rite?

[patrickjp93]

make sure to tell college students that live in dorms that they have free electricity

I'm one of them, and I run an FPGA rig to do it. You'd have to be a fool to use graphics cards anymore. 1 you have to buy them with your own or your parents' money (and that investment cannot be made back at the difficulty Bitcoin and Dogecoin are both at now). 2 If you're using that much electricity any university will come see what's up.

[JAKEBAB]

Majority of games have terrible scaling with just 2 cards u still dont get double the performance and anymore cards u shouldnt even bother and now they have spoke about 5? Seriously dont u think they should focus on pushing better scaling with game devs before this is even spoken about again.

[patrickjp93]

Majority of games have terrible scaling with just 2 cards u still dont get double the performance and anymore cards u shouldnt even bother and now they have spoke about 5? Seriously dont u think they should focus on pushing better scaling with game devs before this is even spoken about again.

It can pertain to some highly synchronized compute loads, but for gaming it's laughable to think about. If only people designed applications with 8 threads in mind and then just allowed some if statements to combine execution paths if the available core count is lower...

[Valentyn]

I would prefer if they got Crossfire working in Windowed mode for games.

[Kjellstad]

the deminishing returns above 2-way are terrible. in some cases 3-way can be justified, but never 4-way, and you want to go to 5-way? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

[pbenologa]

My question: Why?

Epeeeeeeen + 20inches

[HippY]

Guys.

 

There is a world outside gaming as well.

And X99 is a more of a workstation solution than a consumer, although you can use some consumer grade(ish) CPU and there are gaming X99 platforms

But there is like Asus X99 WS,

[Valentyn]

Guys.

 

There is a world outside gaming as well.

And X99 is a more of a workstation solution than a consumer, although you can use some consumer grade(ish) CPU and there are gaming X99 platforms

But there is like Asus X99 WS,

 

Crossfire is not needed for professional work. Those applications will use any and all available GPU's as long as they're designed to do so.

 

Crossfire X which is what this is about is specifically for gaming, and need specific profiles for each game, this is not the case for professional applications.

[kevin28115]

I'm one of them, and I run an FPGA rig to do it. You'd have to be a fool to use graphics cards anymore. 1 you have to buy them with your own or your parents' money (and that investment cannot be made back at the difficulty Bitcoin and Dogecoin are both at now). 2 If you're using that much electricity any university will come see what's up.

it was meant as a joke....

[Psykomantis00]

My question: Why?

Why not?

[OlekKing]

think of the FPS... omg

 

 

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

4 way GPU scaling is utter shit, actually makes it worse in some cases, with a 5th one it would be a complete waste.