Crossfire compatible GPUs with Zotac GTX 960 2gb ddr 5 amp! edition

[tanmay9911]

can anyone please suggest a compatible GPU for crossfire with Zotac GTX 960 2gb ddr5 amp! edition??

setup-
i5 6400
asus H170pro
Corsair DDR 4 8gb 1600
1tb Seagate,
Corsair H80i cooler.
I have no other periferals - not even a dvd rom

 

[Mr Kagouris]

It's called SLI for nVidia cards not Crossfire, just so you know. As for which cards are compatible, pretty much any other GTX 960 with 2GB of VRAM.

 

[tanmay9911]

It's called SLI for nVidia cards not Crossfire, just so you know. As for which cards are compatible, pretty much any other GTX 960 with 2GB of VRAM.

Thanks for replying 😀 , so are you saying that nvidia cards are only SLI ready and crossfire doesn't work for them? It may seem really obvious , but please enlighten me !

 

[Mr Kagouris]

nVidia = SLI, AMD = Crossfire. Effectively both technologies do the same thing (allow multi-GPU configurations), although Crossfire has better scaling.

 

[Aakash294]

SLI is multi GPU support for nVidia cards whereas crossfire is multi gpu support for AMD cards. To SLI, you will need another 960 2gb as you cannot SLI two different cards. 2 GTX 960's beat a 980 in 1440p BUT. they are 4gb modules. SLI with a 2gb ccard is useless as the VRAM doesn't stack.

 

[tanmay9911]

SLI is multi GPU support for nVidia cards whereas crossfire is multi gpu support for AMD cards. To SLI, you will need another 960 2gb as you cannot SLI two different cards. 2 GTX 960's beat a 980 in 1440p BUT. they are 4gb modules. SLI with a 2gb ccard is useless as the VRAM doesn't stack.

Now I can understand the diff bet the two- but the thing is my motherboard has only crossfire support - no SLI support. so this basically means I need to buy a single GPU whenever I need to upgrade my PC?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Pretty much, yeah. From the 1151 socket motherboards, only the ones with the Z170 chipset have SLI support (and even then the lowest end boards don't). You can thank nVidia for this since their GPUs will simply not function if they can't access a PCIe x8 link, whereas AMD's can run even at x4.

 

[Aakash294]

If you want to have multi-GPU's right now, just sell your 960 for a 280x or 290 and crossfire them. Though id suggest you to just keep the 960 for a while. If you're gaming at 1080p, it may or may not run all games at ultra at 50fps + (like Witcher 3, Divsion) but it can handle them at med-high for about a year or more. Whereas if you're using a 900p monitor like me, the 960 can even run them for ultra. Just keep the card for a few months. Sell it later, get a Z170 chipset, SLI A 970 OR get a 980ti or 980. That will help in higher resolutions or demanding games.

 

[Aakash294]

P.S- Your cpu and RAM are quite good so yeah all you will need to change later will be your motherboard, Psu and GPU.