A10 6800K crossfired with 7770?

[Jacob Pickering]

There is a lot of evidence of people being able to crossfire the 7750 graphics cards with the 5800k and 6800k processors. There is not much about the 7770. However there is a guy who's wrote a review of a powercolor 7770 card on new egg saying he's got it crossfired with the 5800k, and i've read a comment on a youtube video and the guy said his friend has it working as well. The 7770 and 7750 don't differ that much in construction, it's really a matter of drivers support for the 7770 to crossfire with a 6800k's integrated graphics right? And with AMD releasing a new display driver on july 31st, being focused on fixing crossfire bugs, it very well could have good functionality and support for 5800k and 6800k crossfire setups with 7750 and 7770 graphics cards..?

Definately looking for anybody who knows 7770 crossfire setup with apu has been done by themselves or someone they know. Tempted to buy a 7770 card...


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131477
powercolor offering a $30 rebate, newegg offering 10% off, it comes to $69 with free shipping, a $70 7770 card is an insane deal, and makes me intensely curious if two of these will crossfire with the integrated apu graphics as well...probably doesn't...

 

[ihog]

Either way, Crossfire is broken at the moment. I wouldn't even consider it until AMD fixes it. They are supposedly releasing drivers that fix Crossfire by July 31st.

 

[SNA3]

There is a lot of evidence of people being able to crossfire the 7750 graphics cards with the 5800k and 6800k processors. There is not much about the 7770. However there is a guy who's wrote a review of a powercolor 7770 card on new egg saying he's got it crossfired with the 5800k, and i've read a comment on a youtube video and the guy said his friend has it working as well. The 7770 and 7750 don't differ that much in construction, it's really a matter of drivers support for the 7770 to crossfire with a 6800k's integrated graphics right? And with AMD releasing a new display driver on july 31st, being focused on fixing crossfire bugs, it very well could have good functionality and support for 5800k and 6800k crossfire setups with 7750 and 7770 graphics cards..?

Definately looking for anybody who knows 7770 crossfire setup with apu has been done by themselves or someone they know. Tempted to buy a 7770 card...

no.

it cross fires with HD6670 , the same for 5800k ... and there is no evidence of what you say , dont listen ro rumors

if you get the A10 6800K be sure to get DDR3 2133 ram for the system , and the HD 6670 to be GDDR5 .

and btw getting HD 7870 + normal FX AMD now is same Price of A10 6800K with 6670 , so dont bother going FM2

 

[Jacob Pickering]

There is a lot of evidence of people being able to crossfire the 7750 graphics cards with the 5800k and 6800k processors. There is not much about the 7770. However there is a guy who's wrote a review of a powercolor 7770 card on new egg saying he's got it crossfired with the 5800k, and i've read a comment on a youtube video and the guy said his friend has it working as well. The 7770 and 7750 don't differ that much in construction, it's really a matter of drivers support for the 7770 to crossfire with a 6800k's integrated graphics right? And with AMD releasing a new display driver on july 31st, being focused on fixing crossfire bugs, it very well could have good functionality and support for 5800k and 6800k crossfire setups with 7750 and 7770 graphics cards..?

Definately looking for anybody who knows 7770 crossfire setup with apu has been done by themselves or someone they know. Tempted to buy a 7770 card...

no.

it cross fires with HD6670 , the same for 5800k ... and there is no evidence of what you say , dont listen ro rumors

if you get the A10 6800K be sure to get DDR3 2133 ram for the system , and the HD 6670 to be GDDR5 .

and btw getting HD 7870 + normal FX AMD now is same Price of A10 6800K with 6670 , so dont bother going FM2

there's like half a dozen videos on youtube of people crossfiring 5800ks and 6800ks with 7750s. yes, amd doesn't officially state that the integrated graphics can crossfire with anything higher than 6670, but since when does the corporate MO (modus operandi) mean anything.
and here's one bit of visual proof.
http://i.imgur.com/CApj2nr.jpg

 

[adimeister]

I also have an A10. If I were in your place, I would be confident enough to plug in a 7750 or a 7770. There are a lot of proof already, but AMD hasn't confirmed this. But I've read somewhere that it might be, just might be, a marketing stunt to take out the 6670 in the market and let people move towards 7750 and 7770.

 

[Jacob Pickering]

I also have an A10. If I were in your place, I would be confident enough to plug in a 7750 or a 7770. There are a lot of proof already, but AMD hasn't confirmed this. But I've read somewhere that it might be, just might be, a marketing stunt to take out the 6670 in the market and let people move towards 7750 and 7770.

yeah i wouldn't put it past those illuminated bastards to run devious business paradigm's like that. got a crap ton of old tech 6670 cards that need to be cleared out, so just trick the consumer into buying ddr3 crap. i'll probably be purchasing a 7770 soon, gonna go see if anybody has triple crossfired with an apu as one of the 3, cause two 7770's for $138 is a good deal for the kind of graphics power that would have.

 

[SNA3]

I also have an A10. If I were in your place, I would be confident enough to plug in a 7750 or a 7770. There are a lot of proof already, but AMD hasn't confirmed this. But I've read somewhere that it might be, just might be, a marketing stunt to take out the 6670 in the market and let people move towards 7750 and 7770.

yeah i wouldn't put it past those illuminated bastards to run devious business paradigm's like that. got a crap ton of old tech 6670 cards that need to be cleared out, so just trick the consumer into buying ddr3 crap. i'll probably be purchasing a 7770 soon, gonna go see if anybody has triple crossfired with an apu as one of the 3, cause two 7770's for $138 is a good deal for the kind of graphics power that would have.

you dont get it , even if it works , it will slow down to match in APU speed ... and if you did not buy yet , get a normal AM3

its the same price and better performance

 

[adimeister]

Good luck man. But I've also heard the a10 is a very good quad core cpu, it even does well on a 680. What I'm trying to say is that, you can also get a discrete gpu in the long run.

Don't mind some of the biased people here. lol There are a lot of AMD haters here, the bickering doesn't stop. Just keep on researching. Don't listen to one opinion only, not even mine only. 😉

 

[Jacob Pickering]

Good luck man. But I've also heard the a10 is a very good quad core cpu, it even does well on a 680.

thanks for the luck. i am loving this 6800k. msi overclock genie puts it at 4.4 ghz, graphics clock at 894, and memory at 1959. i can't get 2133 to work with my sticks, gskill sniper series 1600, but with the 105 multiplier the oc genie does, it adds 5 percent to everything, so 4.2 cpu clock becomes 4.4, northbridge bus is cranked up, and the memory is taken from 1866 to 1960, which is great for the integrated graphics. I've got a $45 gigabyte 6570 in there right now, but i wanna upgrade graphics so i can turn up settings on arma 3 and be ready for battlefield 4.

 

[adimeister]

I also have an 1866 mems. It's good huh?? 😀 I'm enjoying it, really. What I'm doing now is saving my money for the new ATI cards, then maybe that time BF4 is also out. But if the 760 is still better than the new ati cards, I'd go with the 760. 😀 The a10 with your 1959 latency would be faster than your 6570.lol

 

[Jacob Pickering]

I also have an 1866 mems. It's good huh?? 😀 I'm enjoying it, really. What I'm doing now is saving my money for the new ATI cards, then maybe that time BF4 is also out. But if the 760 is still better than the new ati cards, I'd go with the 760. 😀 The a10 with your 1959 latency would be faster than your 6570.lol

yeah i dunno if integrated or discrete is faster, i should 3d mark them individually and see what i get, but i got them crossfiring right now, and i'm getting display driver crashes in arma 3, so hopefully the new driver fixes that. the card is overclocked to 800gpu and 960 mem, and the integrated is at 900 gpu, and 2x 980, the two sticks at 980 being 1960 together.

 

[adimeister]

Well if you got them on xfire, that would be faster than either one.

 

[Maxime506]

AMD is always making guys fancy...

Personally, I think. A10-6800K is just a FX-43xx (4.1-4.4Ghz)+an entry gfx. But the price is on par with a FX-6350/8320. The IGP of the A10 APU is neither weak nor strong enough, that's why I am so disappointed when seeing the so called "Richland" comes out. I mean, for the price of the A10, it should be at least be a FX-43xx + an HD 7750/7770 intergrated graphic chip (but unfortunately the igp is based on HD 6xxx tech and didn't make much progress). I mean if u buy an Athlon II 750K + HD 7770 it works much better than an A10 itself and is even a little bit cheaper.

So, even if AMD launched the Dual Graphics support drv, it won't solve the problem. "Cause HD 8670D and HD 7750/7770 are based on different architecture. SO I don't think both cards won't work too well. If u still didn't buy A10, dump it and get a 30$ cheaper FX-6300 + HD 7850 instead it will work even better than 8670D+7770.

 

[Jacob Pickering]

AMD is always making guys fancy...

Personally, I think. A10-6800K is just a FX-43xx (4.1-4.4Ghz)+an entry gfx. But the price is on par with a FX-6350/8320. The IGP of the A10 APU is neither weak nor strong enough, that's why I am so disappointed when seeing the so called "Richland" comes out. I mean, for the price of the A10, it should be at least be a FX-43xx + an HD 7750/7770 intergrated graphic chip (but unfortunately the igp is based on HD 6xxx tech and didn't make much progress). I mean if u buy an Athlon II 750K + HD 7770 it works much better than an A10 itself and is even a little bit cheaper.

So, even if AMD launched the Dual Graphics support drv, it won't solve the problem. "Cause HD 8670D and HD 7750/7770 are based on different architecture. SO I don't think both cards won't work too well. If u still didn't buy A10, dump it and get a 30$ cheaper FX-6300 + HD 7850 instead it will work even better than 8670D+7770.

thanks for the reply. thought i would respond out of courtesy for your courtesy of taking your time to write on my post. Your somewhat right, the only exception i would add is that the a10 average score on cpumark is 51XX and the 4 core fx 4300 is only like 42xx. So they are different processors, even though they are both 4 cores. I believe video games are only multithreaded to use a maximum of 4 cores so i'm not that interested in a 6 core processor, nor am i interested in expensive intel 4 core processors, this 6800k really does seem to be the best performing 4 core AMD processor. I already own it, i've got a 45 dollar 6570 crossfired with it right now, and i'm tryin to figure out which video card i should buy. I am worried that 7770 requires crossfire bridge and thus only 7750 can crossfire through the mobo to the integrated gpu. as is my integrated and 6570 score in 3dmark 11 at 3000, hopefully the 7750 will bring that up and i can run high quality textures at medium resolutions in arma 3 and battlefield 4. need to find somebody nearby with 7770 that i can borrow for just a second and see if the crossfire works....

 

[ryanazar]

AMD is always making guys fancy...

Personally, I think. A10-6800K is just a FX-43xx (4.1-4.4Ghz)+an entry gfx. But the price is on par with a FX-6350/8320. The IGP of the A10 APU is neither weak nor strong enough, that's why I am so disappointed when seeing the so called "Richland" comes out. I mean, for the price of the A10, it should be at least be a FX-43xx + an HD 7750/7770 intergrated graphic chip (but unfortunately the igp is based on HD 6xxx tech and didn't make much progress). I mean if u buy an Athlon II 750K + HD 7770 it works much better than an A10 itself and is even a little bit cheaper.

So, even if AMD launched the Dual Graphics support drv, it won't solve the problem. "Cause HD 8670D and HD 7750/7770 are based on different architecture. SO I don't think both cards won't work too well. If u still didn't buy A10, dump it and get a 30$ cheaper FX-6300 + HD 7850 instead it will work even better than 8670D+7770.

thanks for the reply. thought i would respond out of courtesy for your courtesy of taking your time to write on my post. Your somewhat right, the only exception i would add is that the a10 average score on cpumark is 51XX and the 4 core fx 4300 is only like 42xx. So they are different processors, even though they are both 4 cores. I believe video games are only multithreaded to use a maximum of 4 cores so i'm not that interested in a 6 core processor, nor am i interested in expensive intel 4 core processors, this 6800k really does seem to be the best performing 4 core AMD processor. I already own it, i've got a 45 dollar 6570 crossfired with it right now, and i'm tryin to figure out which video card i should buy. I am worried that 7770 requires crossfire bridge and thus only 7750 can crossfire through the mobo to the integrated gpu. as is my integrated and 6570 score in 3dmark 11 at 3000, hopefully the 7750 will bring that up and i can run high quality textures at medium resolutions in arma 3 and battlefield 4. need to find somebody nearby with 7770 that i can borrow for just a second and see if the crossfire works....

Did you ever end up borrowing that 7770 and trying this out?

 

[Jacob Pickering]

i bought two 7770's and have them crossfired. they do not dual graphics with the integrated graphics, the integrated and my 6570 are going unused right now. but i might have broken my motherboard's audio so i might have to buy an am3+ mobo and fx 6 core processor.

 

[ryanazar]

i bought two 7770's and have them crossfired. they do not dual graphics with the integrated graphics, the integrated and my 6570 are going unused right now. but i might have broken my motherboard's audio so i might have to buy an am3+ mobo and fx 6 core processor.

that clears up a lot of speculation. Just to be clear: would a SINGLE 7770 dual graphics with the integrated graphics? I'm wondering if maybe it wont dual graphics because you have 2x 7770.

 

[ryanaza]

I personally have the 7750 crossfired with my a10-6800k currently. Considering how cheap the 7750 is now, and how its only a few bucks more than the 6670 I would say its worth it. The resulting performance is about the same as a 7770 on its own. The micro-stutter is not noticeable in my experience, and it is certainly better performing than the a10-6800k or 7750 independently. After overclocking the a10-6800k's GPU and using ddr2133 ram (i cant get 2400 to POST oddly enough), the performance of the iGPU is almost on par with the 7750. The reason the 7750 works is because it does not require the crossfire bridge. Rumor has it the r7-260x does not require the crossfire bridge either because it supports PCIEx3 and XDMA. My socket FM2+ motherboard has PCIEx3 so i plan to pick up an r7-260x later today to see if it will crossfire.

 

[rhapdog]

i bought two 7770's and have them crossfired. they do not dual graphics with the integrated graphics, the integrated and my 6570 are going unused right now. but i might have broken my motherboard's audio so i might have to buy an am3+ mobo and fx 6 core processor.

that clears up a lot of speculation. Just to be clear: would a SINGLE 7770 dual graphics with the integrated graphics? I'm wondering if maybe it wont dual graphics because you have 2x 7770.

Just to clear up any confusion that anyone may be having, let me give a definitive answer here, in case someone else like myself finds this thread through a Google (or other) search like I did. I realize that if you read between the lines and are savvy, you should have been able to figure out without issue, or perhaps you just made the assumption, but assumptions very often are wrong, so let's cut to the chase here.

I ordered an HD 7770 this week. I installed it this morning and have done some testing on this. A SINGLE 7770 will NOT dual graphics with the integrated graphics of an A10-6800K. The 7770 requires using the CrossFire bridge in order to pair with another GPU, which cannot be done with integrated graphics.

However, the performance I'm getting with this OC model of it is far more than 2x the performance I was getting with just the A10-6800K iGPU. I am very satisfied with my purchase, especially since I only had a $93 budget, and I got it shipped for less than my budget, so now I have money left over. Not enough to buy a second one, but perhaps eventually.

 

[Jacob Pickering]

yeah i got two sapphire 7770's on my richland 6800k now. they won't dual graphics because they require a crossfire bridge, but if they would dual graphics with the kaveri integrated gpu that would be really sweet. won't happen though they got a new 250x R7 card taht is a rebadged 7770, literally identical except built so that it doesn't require a crossfire bridge? and will dual graphics iwth kaveri.

 

[rhapdog]

Although an HD 7770 will not dual graphics with the A10-6800K, that doesn't mean you absolutely have to disable the iGPU. I'm using video rendering software that takes advantage of the stream processors using OpenCL, and it uses my iGPU (8670D) and discrete GPU (7770) for hardware acceleration. It's 30% faster rendering than with the 7770 alone. Adds another 25% when I let it use all 4 of my CPU cores on top of that.

Bottom line, if this is for gaming, you won't get performance from iGPU+GPU with A10-6800K + HD7770, just use the HD7770. However, if you're scrypt mining using OpenCL or using a rendering program that handles the renders using OpenCL, you will greatly benefit from having both enabled and configured in the program to be used simultaneously.

I ran some facial recognition software against a database of over 7000 photos. With just the CPU, it took over 12 hours. With just the HD 7770, it took 27 minutes. Using the iGPU + HD 7770 + CPU, it took 11 minutes.

Worth it. At least for me.

Just thought I'd throw this out there. Perhaps some people haven't thought of this type of use for it, since so many on here are "games only" oriented. I do very little gaming, but do enjoy a good round of Tomb Raider Reloaded once in a while.