Can I use my APU's graphics card and my dedicated graphics card together to get better perfomance?

[sebasalvarado2002]

Hi. I have a QuadCore AMD A10-7700K 3800 MHz APU which includes a Radeon R7. I also have a dedicated ASUS RX 460 2GB OC edition on my PCIe slot, is there any way I can use both to get better perfomance while gaming?

 

[bjornl]

No.
Your CPU is not very powerful, and even if this were possible than the loss of CPU power would probably result in at least a big a gaming hit as the limits from that graphics card.

You can get better performance in gaming by:
Tuning your PC (lots of guides on the web).
Cleaning your PC (blow it out, keep it dust free and also keep %temp% and %windir%\temp empty)
Virus scan your PC (Malwarebytes anti-malware)
Stop programs from starting with your pc (Sysinternals autoruns)

 

[jankerson]

No, that's not how it works, it's either one or the other.

 

[william p]

AMD had a thing called Hybrid Crossfire. So it's been done sort of. But I don't know what GPUs it supported. I'm not an AMD guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Hybrid_Graphics

 

[DSzymborski]

AMD had a thing called Hybrid Crossfire. So it's been done sort of. But I don't know what GPUs it supported. I'm not an AMD guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Hybrid_Graphics

Yeah, Hybrid Crossfire was a thing, but not an option here - it was pretty much only with its very low end GPUs and it wasn't very good anyway.

 

[william p]

I didn't know if there was a newer version or if they gave up on it. I just came across that today researching a Trifire CFX HD6970/HD6990 project.

 

[sebasalvarado2002]

Alright, thanks everyone

 

[bjornl]

Alright, thanks everyone

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