RX 460 crossfire?

[NSDUO]

Can I run two RX 460s in crossfire? If I can how would it compare to a single R9 fury?

[Zusafek]

To be honest I'm not sure why you would want to. Every time I have run crossfire or sli it causes more headaches than improvement. 

[NSDUO]

Just now, Zusafek said:

To be honest I'm not sure why you would want to. Every time I have run crossfire or sli it causes more headaches than improvement. 

I wanna save some money because two 460s are cheaper than a r9 fury

[Zusafek]

Just now, NSDUO said:

I wanna save some money because two 460s are cheaper than a r9 fury

The fury would still trounce dual rx 460. Your be better off getting an 8gb rx 470 Or If you can a 4gb or 8gb 480. 

[Damascus]

yeah, 480 would be better

[LabRat]

2 minutes ago, Zusafek said:

The fury would still trounce dual rx 460. Your be better off getting an 8gb rx 470 Or If you can a 4gb or 8gb 480. 

this says it all.

if you compare your analysis on fps alone you're fooling yourself.

[NSDUO]

Is a 480 more powerful than a fury? Because from what I've heard the fury is close to 1070 level

[mariushm]

RX 460 uses a processor that's limited to 128bit memory bus and pci-e x8. Since the memory bus is limited to 128bit, the video card is limited to 2 GB or 4 GB memory ( 4 x 32 bit GDDR5 memory chips, and the highest size memory chips these days is 1 GB).

 

Unless things have changed since last time I documented myself, when you use cards in Crossfire, each card basically needs to reserve half the memory to hold the data of the other card, so you're essentially downgrading the total memory to 1 GB or 2 GB.  

2 GB memory would probably be barely enough for 1080p medium-high quality settings.

 

So you're not only getting lower memory, you're also getting only 128bit bus memory on each card compared to 256 bit on Fury or other cards like RX 470 (which costs less than 2 x RX 460)

 

I'd say aim for a RX 470.

[LTTQuantum]

You could by an RX480 with that money and it would be better!

[Zusafek]

5 minutes ago, NSDUO said:

Is a 480 more powerful than a fury? Because from what I've heard the fury is close to 1070 level

Yes the Fury is a really nice card. Can't deny that but for the power consumption alone your going to need to have that covered. And as new titles come out utilizing Vulkan and DX12 the 470 and 480 are going to slowly walk ahead of the Fury in time. But as of right now the Fury is close to the 1070. 

[lx_srs]

13 minutes ago, NSDUO said:

Is a 480 more powerful than a fury? Because from what I've heard the fury is close to 1070 level

a fury is more powerful than a 480.  However, with 460 crossfire, you're still not going to get to that level of performance.  You only theoretically get double performance, and that's only in games that support dual GPU's well.  In games without good crossfire support, you're only going to get the performance of a single card.

[NSDUO]

14 minutes ago, Zusafek said:

Yes the Fury is a really nice card. Can't deny that but for the power consumption alone your going to need to have that covered. And as new titles come out utilizing Vulkan and DX12 the 470 and 480 are going to slowly walk ahead of the Fury in time. But as of right now the Fury is close to the 1070. 

I have power covered. The fury dosent have dx12 and vulkan?

[Zusafek]

Just now, NSDUO said:

I have power covered. The fury dosent have dx12 and vulkan?

As far as I know it does but I don't think it runs it as well as the rx 400 series card. Don't quote me on that though as I've never personally run the Fury card. 

[NSDUO]

5 minutes ago, Zusafek said:

As far as I know it does but I don't think it runs it as well as the rx 400 series card. Don't quote me on that though as I've never personally run the Fury card. 

Ok thx for bringing this to my attention I'll take a look into it. 

[Demonking]

7 minutes ago, Zusafek said:

As far as I know it does but I don't think it runs it as well as the rx 400 series card. Don't quote me on that though as I've never personally run the Fury card. 

The fury supports vulkan matter a fact a fury x gets close if not beats a 1070 in doom vulkan which a 480 couldn't beat even with vulkan.

[NSDUO]

Just now, Demonking said:

The fury supports vulkan matter a fact a fury x gets close if not beats a 1070 in doom vulkan.

Ok

[Zusafek]

23 minutes ago, Demonking said:

The fury supports vulkan matter a fact a fury x gets close if not beats a 1070 in doom vulkan which a 480 couldn't beat even with vulkan.

Thank you for the clarification. I just didn't have the info to answer that part completely.