AMD Kaveri IGP and Dual fire

[the lobotomite]

Hey I'm building a first time gaming PC for my little bro and I was looking into the AMD Kaveri APUS as an option and I was wondering as a GPU upgrade path would he ba able to upgrade in a year or so to a amd R9 270X/270/260X and would they still dual fire with the IGP

 

[logainofhades]

Do your bro a favor and get a decent setup with a better upgrade path from the start. You could go with a Pentium G and a 260x now for a similar cost of a 7850k. You can only hybrid crossfire a 240 or 250 and the results are not stellar with regards to microstuttering.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.97 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi B85S3+ Ver. 6.x Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($72.25 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $337.20
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-27 16:18 EST-0500)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($184.17 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus A88XM-A Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $329.15
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-27 16:18 EST-0500)

 

[Immaculate]

Im pretty sure Kaveri does DUAL GRAPHICS with the R7 250s and 240s. I dont know about the 260s but this article says no on the 260Xs.

http://wccftech.com/amd-kaveri-dual-graphics-works-ddr3-memory-based-radeon-r7-gpus/

 

[mouse24]

Also in a year or so I am pretty sure amds new cards will be out, considering nvidias are coming sometime in Q1.