7950 Crossfire - worth it?

[fredsn92]

Hi guys,

I currently own one 7950 and it has served me well, but I'm thinking about upgrading.

Are two 7950s in crossfire a good idea? Do they scale well, and has anyone had any experience in this?

I have an AMD 8350 cpu if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

 

[DzOnIxD]

The scaling really depends on the game, for example Tomb Raider scales really good, but Watch Dogs scales terribly with multiple GPU. I would suggest buying a single stronger GPU and selling the old.

 

[Neur0nauT]

Hi guys,

I currently own one 7950 and it has served me well, but I'm thinking about upgrading.

Are two 7950s in crossfire a good idea? Do they scale well, and has anyone had any experience in this?

I have an AMD 8350 cpu if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

If you can pick up a second 7950 cheaply then it might be an option, however Crossfire relies a lot on the scaling provided within the drivers, When you get good scaling it works great, but it causes other problems also, and towards the end of its life....I found it hard to get decent drivers for my 6780x2 card for newer games....I was forced to use 13.12 drivers for most of a year, as all newer drivers were catering more for the R9 series. So I would not go crossfire again, unless the price was right.

As DzOnIxD said: Go for a powerful single GPU card over upgrading with older tech.

 

[sincreator]

I think you would be somewhat OK, since the HD7950 was rebranded as the r9 280. Driver support should remain pretty solid for another year, maybe two. I got my second card for a steal and I definitely love the boost it gives me. The only games I had issues with xfire so far are Ubisoft titles using the Dunia engine. I honestly don't think this will ever be properly fixed, or at least not until they fix their engine in terms of proper SLI/XFIRE support. Maybe Dunia engine 2 will work properly with multi gpu setups.

I say if the price is right go for it. If you don't like them you may get $100 each for them on ebay, and then you will have $200 to go towards a faster single GPU card.

When the crossfire is working properly it will beat a GTX970/980 or a r9 290/x. If it don't then you still have a pretty solid 1080p card to use in single mode. About the same as having 1 GTX960 performance wise.