Crossfire or One Card?

[Mr Yammy]

Hey guys,

 

Simple question.

 

I currently have one asus r9 270x, and am looking to upgrade when Christmas comes around.

 

These are my options:

 

I can get another 270x to go Crossfire, or I can sell my current 270x and get a single GTX 970.

 

So,

 

Crossfire or one 970?

 

Thanks, 

 

Yammy.

[EarthboundHero]

One 970, will be better.

[79wjd]

Single 970

[XTankSlayerX]

Single 970

[Godlygamer23]

Single cards tend to provide better experiences than SLI/Crossfire builds. I'd go with the single 970. However, you might get higher potential performance with the two 270X's.

[Mr Yammy]

Thanks for everyone's input.

 

Will be deciding soon!

[Frosty11]

Two R9 270Xs will give you performance equivalent to a single 770. Also, what power supply do you have?

[Briggsy]

only crossfire/SLI if you already have a top tier card, otherwise its not going to be worth it when you try to run a game that doesn't support multi-gpu's very well.

[RazrLeaf]

A single 270X provides, on average, ~55% of the performance of a single 970.  Even with a generous scaling ratio of 1.8 (meaning if you had 30 FPS, you'd now have 54 FPS), a single GTX 970 is still faster (on average).  So not only is the single 970 going to be faster than crossfire 270X most of the time, but it's also more energy efficient. And because it's a single card, there won't be the frame pacing and driver issues that come with multi-card setups.

 

TL;DR Get the 970. It's faster, cooler, simpler, and more reliable.