570 Crossfire Worth it? Crossfire in General Worth it?

[Aidan Hartline]

I have been collecting components flr a new build which will be using a RX 570 or 580. So I was thinking if I got a 570, should I later down the road, buy a second card lr just get something like a Vega or 580. So is crossfire even worth it?

[Vandorlot]

Its not worth it. Crossfire and sli are terrible choices just get the 1 best card you can.

[Psittac]

crossfire or sli = nope

[Damascus]

Potato.  Don't do it.

[Darkseth]

It's not worth ^^

 

Remember: If Sli/Crossfire with midrange Graphics cards (or older ones) were a good idea.. why isn't everyone doing it? Exactly, because it's not a good idea

 

As long there is a stronger single GPU, you ALWAYS (!!) go for that.

 

Crossfire/Sli disadvantages:

-  Support is dropping. Not just from amd/nvidia, but also from game developers. Lesser and lesser games do support it (well).

- double the power consumption, increasing heat in your System and noise by a good margin. Performance per Watt is going down (Example: 2x RX 580 8gb will consume 200w each, 400w total. only the GPUs. A similar strong (in average, mostly faster because no multi-GPU scaling needed) GTX 1080 consumes 180 watt.

- Driver problems. You can have micro stuttering, no scaling at all (only 1 GPU will be used), waiting for Crossfire support, etc etc.

- Performance. While it is increasing in some games, it almost never increases by +100%. Mostly it's +20% - +70%. In some rare games it's even negative performance. 2 of them scale SO bad together, that both have a usage of less than 50% --> 2 will be slower than 1 single

 

 

Crossfire/Sli is dying pretty much. There is literaly only 1 single situation where you should consider it.

You already have the fastest high end single GPU, and you need/want more performance. Then adding a 2nd one is your only choice.

Otherwise: If you need more performance, you simply sell your GPU, and get a faster one. lowest amount of problems, maximum efficiency / performance. ^^

[1234vietnam]

no and no

[Princess Luna]

54 minutes ago, Aidan Hartline said:

should I later down the road,

Later down the road you'll want to sell your single best card you could afford then say the RX580 and get the newest and bester nVidia Ampere GTX 2070 Ti

 

Seriously though the best future proofing is actually not get stuck with hardware, get stuff that keeps resell value.

[andrewmp6]

Step up to a vega 56 or gtx 1070 ti if you can afford it.On directx 12 games cf/sli is left up to the game makers if they want to support it or not,So i think most won't do the extra work to have it.On directx 11 games you can run cf/sli but some games it works good but a lot are buggy/full of problems.

[Zeitec]

3 hours ago, Aidan Hartline said:

I have been collecting components flr a new build which will be using a RX 570 or 580. So I was thinking if I got a 570, should I later down the road, buy a second card lr just get something like a Vega or 580. So is crossfire even worth it?

No. It is literally never worth it. Get an RX 580 now, keep in for 2-3 years, sell it for cheap then use that to fund a new mid range GPU like the RX 780 or whatever it is at the time.