Able to crossfire?

[KillerWolf17]

I currently have an XFX R9 380 4gb

my friend wants a new gpu and he might sell me his MSI R9 380 4gb

can I crossfire two different brands with the same specs? Also, can I crossfire without a bridge to connect the cards? (my motherboard is SLI and crossfire 'ready')

 

thanks

 

[ChillyPepperGuy]

1 minute ago, KillerWolf17 said:

I currently have an XFX R9 380 4gb

my friend wants a new gpu and he might sell me his MSI R9 380 4gb

can I crossfire two different brands with the same specs? Also, can I crossfire without a bridge to connect the cards? (my motherboard is SLI and crossfire 'ready')

 

thanks

 

yes you can put them in cross fire

[Guest]

AMD does not require any bridge (depends on the series but for your case it will be fine w/o a bridge)

Yes you can with 2 diff brands

[doomsriker]

yup you can

[Enderman]

Yeah but you shouldn't, multi-GPU sucks.

It's must better to sell your current card and use that money towards buying a more current GPU.

[othertomperson]

13 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

AMD does not require any bridge

Yes you can with 2 diff brands

Big Asterisk needed here. Both the 200 and 300 series had rebrands of cards old enough to require a crossfire bridge. The 380 wasn't one of them though.

[typographie]

AMD is pretty lax about Crossfire. In some cases they don't even have to have the same name, as long as it's the right graphics chip. For example, I think you can Crossfire an HD 7970 and a R9 280X, since it's the same Tahiti XT GPU.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

22 minutes ago, typographie said:

AMD is pretty lax about Crossfire. In some cases they don't even have to have the same name, as long as it's the right graphics chip. For example, I think you can Crossfire an HD 7970 and a R9 280X, since it's the same Tahiti XT GPU.

Yes, all 7950, 7970, 280, and 280X can be mixed with each other.