AMD A6-7400K dual graphics

[bananacue]

Hello and thank you in advance for any advise that you can share. I have this AMD A6-7400K +APU and I would like to know if this CPU can run dual graphics?

 

[Lag]

You mean a dedicated graphics card? Yes it can. Not a powerful one though, a GTX 750 Ti at the most.

 

[Grimwinder]

Do you mean can you run 2 crossfire cards with it, or can you crossfire a card with the APU? If the first that will depend on the motherboard, if the second then my understanding is that you can with a HD 6450. Or are you asking if that APU can run 2 monitors?

 

[bananacue]

Sorry for the mis-understanding. What I meant is run the APU+ another dedicated card at the same time. If this is clear, what low profile card i can use. I believe the CPU has a built in die-R5

 

[Lag]

I don't think you can, when you install a new card, the apu will be disabled. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500349&cm_re=gtx_750_ti-_-14-500-349-_-Product This is a relatively small card, do you need something smaller?

 

[das_stig]

AMD R7-250 2GB in xfire mode will yield about 65%-70% performance increase depending on game.

 

[bananacue]

I don't think you can, when you install a new card, the apu will be disabled. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500349&cm_re=gtx_750_ti-_-14-500-349-_-Product This is a relatively small card, do you need something smaller?

Thank you for the information. As long it will fit on my silverstone ML03B case. I can use up to R7 low profile card through bios update.

 

[Zetto52SD]

You can, but you'd have to find which specific R5 graphics cards it supports and use any one of those cards. I wouldn't recommend that though, seeing as it's an R5 series, and AMD is currently on R9 and soon to release their new R9 300 series. I'd go with the best AMD GPU you can get right now or wait for the Fiji architecture. Don't worry about Dual Graphics or even Crossfire. 1 GPu will do fine.

To Lag: Installing a dedicated graphics card does not shut off the graphics function of the APU. It merely substitutes the dedicated GPU for the APU as a graphics source. You would have to go into the BIOS and turn off the APU graphics manually. I wouldn't recommend this though, since that cause graphics for me to go totally off even when using a dedicated GPU.

 

[Grimwinder]

Here's a good article for you Banana, it also lists compatible cards for each APU series (in your case the R7s that have an Oland chip for the GPU)-

http://www.overclockers.com/testing-amd-kaveri-apu-dual-graphics-performance/

 

[Lag]

You can, but you'd have to find which specific R5 graphics cards it supports and use any one of those cards. I wouldn't recommend that though, seeing as it's an R5 series, and AMD is currently on R9 and soon to release their new R9 300 series. I'd go with the best AMD GPU you can get right now or wait for the Fiji architecture. Don't worry about Dual Graphics or even Crossfire. 1 GPu will do fine.

To Lag: Installing a dedicated graphics card does not shut off the graphics function of the APU. It merely substitutes the dedicated GPU for the APU as a graphics source. You would have to go into the BIOS and turn off the APU graphics manually. I wouldn't recommend this though, since that cause graphics for me to go totally off even when using a dedicated GPU.

huh, okay. I thought it was a function of the AMD APUs, guess I need to do a little reading.

 

[bananacue]

Here's a good article for you Banana, it also lists compatible cards for each APU series (in your case the R7s that have an Oland chip for the GPU)-

http://www.overclockers.com/testing-amd-kaveri-apu-dual-graphics-performance/

Thank you for that article.

 

[Grimwinder]

You're most welcome, I hope it helps, good luck with your upgrade!