Low-end crossfire vs slightly better single GPU?

[Mike486DX]

Hi,

I'm currently using an Nvidia 750 standalone GPU, it doesn't do too badly but I'm looking to upgrade sooner than later. It's *NOT* the 750ti version.

I also own a Radeon R7-240, which is quite low-end on the Radeon scale - it's currently redundant and not in use.

The 750 performs better than the R7-240, possibly because of the much higher clock speed, or possibly because it has DDR5 RAM, albeit only half the RAM of its Radeon counterpart.

I'm curious to know as to whether or not I'd get better gaming results from getting another R7-240 and crossfiring them both, or sticking with the 750 which has a higher clock speed, and Maxwell architecture.


nVidia GTX 750: Standalone

1GB DDR5 RAM
Base clock: 1020mhz
Mem Clock: 1ghz

Radeon r7 240
2GB DDR3 RAM
Base clock: 780mhz
Mem Clock: 1.8ghz

Any thoughts appreciated, thanks

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

Hi,

I'm currently using an Nvidia 750 standalone GPU, it doesn't do too badly but I'm looking to upgrade sooner than later. It's *NOT* the 750ti version.

I also own a Radeon R7-240, which is quite low-end on the Radeon scale - it's currently redundant and not in use.

The 750 performs better than the R7-240, possibly because of the much higher clock speed, or possibly because it has DDR5 RAM, albeit only half the RAM of its Radeon counterpart.

I'm curious to know as to whether or not I'd get better gaming results from getting another R7-240 and crossfiring them both, or sticking with the 750 which has a higher clock speed, and Maxwell architecture.


nVidia GTX 750: Standalone

1GB DDR5 RAM
Base clock: 1020mhz
Mem Clock: 1ghz

Radeon r7 240
(Proposed crossfire)
2GB DDR3 RAM
Base clock: 780mhz
Mem Clock: 1.8ghz

Any thoughts appreciated, thanks

stick with the 750 without a doubt, the r7 240 is a garbage product that is cheap and no one should buy it

 

[AndrewCarter]

I am highly recommending you to go with a single medium-end graphics card such as GTX 760 or If you have some more money to spend go get a GTX 970. Trust me, you will not regret it.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

never ever get 2 low end cards if you have or can afford a more powerful single gpu ( diminishing returns/scaling and not all games support multi-gpu) also the r7 240's have crappy ddr3 framebuffers