Crossfire really that bad?

[WiiJii]

Just wondering about the truth on crossfire, I heard it is even worse than a single card. If I upgrade it will be another 7870 but not if it is going to run horribly.

[Godlygamer23]

The frame times aren't very good right now. Installing RadeonPro(free, third party) gets rid of the CrossfireX issues. Once AMD officially releases the currently prototype drivers, CrossfireX issues will likely be gone for the most part.

[coder-guy22296]

I say wait till amd release the proper drivers

[Alex(PlayMedium)]

yeah but it's fixabnle with the radeon pro tool, with it you can limit the framerate to a certain value and as long as the game can stay at that framerate the frametimes are not an issue anymore(This is not vsync and does not have any additional input lag(as far as I can tell).

[Godlygamer23]

Review of GTX 770. Frame times of the 7990 and 7970 CrossfireX are in there. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-770-gk104-review,3519-12.html

[extremescouter]

I would say sell your 7870 and get a better, higher powered single GPU. Supposedly the crossfire issues will be solved soon, but regardless a high end single GPU is normally a better choice. Less power consumption and heat output, and a bunch of other things add up to where most of the time it is beneficial to go for something like a GTX 770 or 780 instead of dual 7870s. 

[OneGun]

Here is the frame latency with RadeonPro..

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1750626

The crossfire is not as bad as everyone says..

[MegaTechPC]

No its not that bad at all and this issue has been blown so far out of proportion you could probably see it from the moon by now.  I owned dual 7970's for over a year and found them to be very good performers.  Sure a chart and high speed video slowed down 100 times shows that CF is technically choppier than SLI but that difference is hardly the disaster its being made out to be.  I did a massive comparison between my 7970 setup and my current Titan setup and to be honest didn't really notice a whole lot of difference in smoothness between the two.  Now some people are very sensitive to microstutter and to those people the issue may be a bit more pronounced but to most people the difference is only just noticeable and is certainly no where near unplayable....

[OneGun]

And a lil microstutter is better then a completely bricked GPU anyday.. :P

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/27187-do-not-update-to-32018/page-2#entry346457

[AjAlien]

It's not really as bad as people make it out to be. Not quite noticeable unless in slow motion but it is still kinda bad. Check out PcPerspective on YouTube they have done everything on frame rating.