R9 380X crossfire

[Lord Nicoll]

I'm considering getting a 2nd R9 380X for my system only because all the waiting for Nvidia to announce a GTX 1080ti is testing my patience, and since I'll be buying 2nd hand the price isn't so earth shattering. This machine does get used for gaming too so I was wondering what's AMD Crossfire like, I know the pendulum of bad drivers is somewhere in the middle currently, since both AMD and Nvidia's drivers are pretty good right now, but what is cross fire like. I already get pretty good game performance (but doubling open CL performance appeals to me) but would crossfire make it more unstable and ergo better to leave disabled or would the performance gains be good enough to justify the possibles issues. I've seen so little on the current state of crossfire on google, like almost no one is currently using it, which makes me question if it's just the power and heat or because it sucks.

[Stardar1]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I'm considering getting a 2nd R9 380X for my system only because all the waiting for Nvidia to announce a GTX 1080ti is testing my patience, and since I'll be buying 2nd hand the price isn't so earth shattering. This machine does get used for gaming too so I was wondering what's AMD Crossfire like, I know the pendulum of bad drivers is somewhere in the middle currently, since both AMD and Nvidia's drivers are pretty good right now, but what is cross fire like. I already get pretty good game performance (but doubling open CL performance appeals to me) but would crossfire make it more unstable and ergo better to leave disabled or would the performance gains be good enough to justify the possibles issues. I've seen so little on the current state of crossfire on google, like almost no one is currently using it, which makes me question if it's just the power and heat or because it sucks.

It is really a question of how much the second card would cost. 

 

I have never crossfired myself, but from what I understand a lot of games simply don't support it. Those that do may have driver issues, but they shouldn't be too terrible. 

 

If it is rather inexpensive, then go for it, if not, then don't. That's my advice. 

[Lord Nicoll]

6 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

It is really a question of how much the second card would cost. 

 

I have never crossfired myself, but from what I understand a lot of games simply don't support it. Those that do may have driver issues, but they shouldn't be too terrible. 

 

If it is rather inexpensive, then go for it, if not, then don't. That's my advice. 

Less than €160 including delivery 2nd, the Sapphire Nitro model I have is pretty common and not too expensive, but given the driver and support issue might still be there, I'd probably leave Crossfire off so.