AMD Dual Graphics - Does Crossfire with your Onboard Video Make Sense
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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569 words · ~2 min read
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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so what is AMD
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dual Graphics it's fairly simple does using the power of two gpus together
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sound similar to something Crossfire you say yes it is it is similar to Crossfire
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and unlike crossfire's competitor you can actually use things that are
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extremely similar but not identical so in this case you can use the integrated
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GPU on AMD's cavar platform to work
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together with the dedicated graphics card for better gaming performance in
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our configuration we have an r7250 with an A10 7850k and this is one of AMD's
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recommended configurations AMD's website is not currently updated with all
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available configurations for this level of dual Graphics but I'm sure it'll
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update at some point in time for performance testing I tested fairly
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standard stuff I ran with Far Cry 3 and BioShock Infinite running both both of
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them at 1080p on high just to see how well these would do and the the Dual
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Graphics ran a lot better than just air Apu which we can obviously expect but
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what was very cool was how much better it ran than just the discret graphics
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card which was definitely nice to see another thing to note is the price per
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FPS which we also checked out which is much better running in dual Graphics
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which you expect as they're the same cost and it got better but it was just
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how much better which was actually extremely impressive all right guys want
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to do more science but I need to know if you guys want me to do more science so
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in the video below and on the Forum be sure to comment telling me what you guys
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want to do what I'm thinking is maybe some more configurations around this
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price range maybe give or take 50 bucks
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uh to see what competes with dual Graphics outside of this little
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ecosystem we can try some cheaper CPUs we can try some more expensive CPUs we
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can try some more expensive graphics cards we can bounce all over the place
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and just see where everything lines up in price per performance and raw
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performance perance so what do you guys think what configurations do you guys want me to test all that kind of stuff
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