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My current card, an R7 260x with 2gb of vram has a hard time running games on a 3 monitor computer. When I turn my CSGO graphics on high I get studdering due to lack of vram. I have another card that has 1gb of vram that if I were to put that in with the R7 and put 2 monitors on the R7 and 1 on the other one, would that improve performance in games?

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I don't believe it works like that, no.

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Multi GPU setups don't work like that, lowering texture quality and AA will help reduce VRAM usage. Best thing to do is to either stop playing on 3 displays or get a more powerful GPU with more VRAM.

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no crossfire doesn't give you extra vram when you crossfire nor sli it only gives you more fps so if you where to connect a other r7 with 1gb to the r7 2gb also what would happen is the r7 with 2gb would go down to 1 gb

 

On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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also you need to have the same architecture GPU if you want to crossfire so you say a other card with 1gb vram it needs to be the same architecture so the HD 7850 or HD 7870 or r7 260x

 

On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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also you need to have the same architecture GPU if you want to crossfire so you say a other card with 1gb vram it needs to be the same architecture so the HD 7850 or HD 7870 or r7 260x

but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

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also you need to have the same architecture GPU if you want to crossfire so you say a other card with 1gb vram it needs to be the same architecture so the HD 7850 or HD 7870 or r7 260x

but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

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but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

you need to crossfire if you want to use them crossfire is that you connect the gpu to your other gpu

 

On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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also you need to have the same architecture GPU if you want to crossfire so you say a other card with 1gb vram it needs to be the same architecture so the HD 7850 or HD 7870 or r7 260x

but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

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also you need to have the same architecture GPU if you want to crossfire so you say a other card with 1gb vram it needs to be the same architecture so the HD 7850 or HD 7870 or r7 260x

but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

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but what If I don't crossfire them, or does it not work like that

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On 11/19/2014 at 2:14 PM, Syntaxvgm said:
You would think Ubisoft would support the Bulldozer based architectures more given their digging themed names like bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
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