hey guys im trying to find out how well crossfire scales from 2 to 3 and 4 gpus .... can anyone help me find out some legit review that would pit them against nvidia's sli equivalent ??
and what method of frame rendering does it use in general would be great
thanks in advance
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Originally Posted by JF-AMD
Dual GPUs is all you need unless your a benchmark whore. I can't rmember where I saw it as it was some time ago but in a nutshell it was proved 2 highend GPUs is all you need to run any game at pretty much any resolution with all the eyecandy on.
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alright then thanks
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Things scale well up to three cards. The fourth doesn't add much and sometimes is a detriment.
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It only really scales well to two cards. The third's benefit is much less pronounced and the fourth's is as gergregg said. Even so, a lot of the time you're looking at maybe a 30-60% increase for that second GPU. A lot of times it won't help at all. Some times it will hurt. You really need to check out the scaling for whatever games you're interested in.
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