Crossfiring an r7 260x.

[P3ĮÑ]

What are the performence benefits and how will it rank upto more advanced gpu's? Well ofc by that, I don't mean "much wow gpu's" like the gtx 780ti or the titan. And will it work with a 500w PSU? I'm curious since the card itself requires 500w (a 500 w reccomended psu to be precise), I attempted to run it on a 400 watt PSU and it ran fine btw, So i'm just wondering.

 

[Touken]

Wouldn't work with a 500W PSU. You'd need to have at least 600-750W, and you'd probably get the performance power of a GTX 760/770.

 

[CDT23]

Sell the r7 and get 2 r9

 

[EgsA]

The radeon R7 260x consumes around 120 Watts, so R7 260x (Crossfire) will consume around 250 Watts at peak. If it will work with a 500w PSU?! It depends on PSU's efficiency (80+ Bronze, 80+ Silver, 80+ Gold ecc.) I recommend you a ''PSU 450-550w 80+ Gold''. If you could me give more stats (CPU brand, how many fans have your case, RAM...), I can help you more?

 

[Excālibur1]

I think a 500W PSU would surely not be enough. I agree that the performance of crossfiring R7 260x is very vast but it has it's own problems. Some games do not support crossfire and the frame rate of that game would be worse than that of a single R7 260x. I remember seeing the benchmarks of a R9 270x defeating a GTX Titan with major frame rate including the GTX 780 Ti but in some games, the crossfire doesn't fare well at all. If you can't get a high end graphics card, I think crossfiring R7 260x is better. Though beware, it might emit lot of heat so you need to have a good cooling system and make sure the motherboard you have supports crossfire. What is your CPU?

Like Touken said, you might be looking at the level of GTX 760/770 if in case, the game supports crossfire. If you have enough money, I recommend getting a new GPU by selling the current one as a single GPU is always better than two weak cards in crossfire.

 

[-Yard-]

Don't crossfire low-mid range cards. The scaling is complete crap on low end models. I own two 7850's in crossfire, they're great, but they work well from being mid range. Low end models like those cards aren't really meant for crossfiring, they're meant to basically either tie you over until you can upgrade or to just casually game. The drivers cannot make up for the performance when compared to a single card you could have bought for the price of two 260x's. If you absolutely have to, then go for it. Also, 500-600w is good enough for a crossfire in that setup. Even just the 500w would suffice.