There are and always will be microstutter issues in two gpu crossfire systems. Although, did you try it with one gpu? Same issue? From what I've read in the past, trifire scales a lot better than crossfire and has no microstutter issues.
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Originally posted by: rayhvh then whats the point of getting crossfire. if its making it worse 100% more.
look at the video
Yes..,what is the point? I am playing the game in Ultra settings with one graphics card and it runs smooth as butter. The whole idea is to play the game. Yeah, go buy another one..or two. And while your at it, go buy a Corvette to take the kids to school. That will impress people.
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Originally posted by: rayhvh then whats the point of getting crossfire. if its making it worse 100% more.
P(C) = (B + K)/C
Let P(C) be the probability that the given item will be purchased; C, the cost of the given item; B, the importance of bragging rights such that 0 < B < C/2; and K, a constant such that 0 < K < C/2 representing the current amount of foreknowledge that the given item will produce a quantifiable benefit to the performance of the machine while performing a certain task.
Clearly, the equation does not account for items that may be free of cost. For all other items if B and K are small for large values of C, then the given item has a very low probability of being purchased. Large values of B can often return a very high probability of the item being purchased regardless of the value of C. However, the value of constant K can often dramatically alter the behavior observed in this type of situation. If B is small and K is large, then the probability of the item being purchased can also be very high. While this is the same outcome as seen previously these two paths to reaching it are nearly diametrically opposed.
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No... you didn't do anything wrong. My post above is an example of what can happen to your brain when it's been force-fed too much discrete math.
The point of Crossfire and SLI is to get you to buy another video card. There are things you can do to lessen the chance of stuttering, but it's a problem inherent in multiGPU configurations. Sometimes you can reduce it to where it's no longer noticable... sometimes not. Power saving features don't tend to play nice with it, nor does running cards in PCIe slots of different speeds. Pretty much anything that can lead to one card becoming out of sync with another should be avoided.
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Crossfire is a lot like RAID, there are benefits but there are also drawbacks. With today's graphics power, at 1920x1200 and below, cards such as the 2GB HD 7970 (and its nVidia counterpart) have plenty of power*. For Eyefinity setups though, you still need multiple GPUs, but that is a niche market. And yes, I run a Crossfire setup and between the very noisy cooler and non linear scaling, both things which will happen with all dual GPU cards, and will happen with any Crossfire setup because with discrete cards there are two coolers whirring away, the top card usually being starved for air.
If you think about it too, it's a lot like 6 and 8 core CPUs (outside the server market), very very few non professional programs use more than 2 cores efficiently and fewer use more than 4 at all, which is why per-core speed trumps core count.
Originally posted by: rayhvh then whats the point of getting crossfire. if its making it worse 100% more
Yes..,what is the point? I am playing the game in Ultra settings with one graphics card and it runs smooth as butter. The whole idea is to play the game. Yeah, go buy another one..or two. And while your at it, go buy a Corvette to take the kids to school. That will impress people.
I would very very much like to see you gents playing FarCry 3 ULTRA settings @1080p under TriDef S-3D drivers or Eyefinty with a single card, no matter which one!
Originally posted by: black_zion Crossfire is a lot like RAID, there are benefits but there are also drawbacks. With today's graphics power, at 1920x1200 and below, cards such as the 2GB HD 7970 (and its nVidia counterpart) have plenty of power*. For Eyefinity setups though, you still need multiple GPUs, but that is a niche market. And yes, I run a Crossfire setup and between the very noisy cooler and non linear scaling, both things which will happen with all dual GPU cards, and will happen with any Crossfire setup because with discrete cards there are two coolers whirring away, the top card usually being starved for air. If you think about it too, it's a lot like 6 and 8 core CPUs (outside the server market), very very few non professional programs use more than 2 cores efficiently and fewer use more than 4 at all, which is why per-core speed trumps core count.
I'm considering a single GPU too but, the problem is that I (like you) have a HD 5970 benching X3079 in 3DMark11 and the alternative is a +400€ HD7970 that has about same performance. Would you change between those cards just to get rid of noticeable micro-stutter in a couple of your games (Metro 2033 and FarCry 3)? I would not! Not at this moment in time. Maybe when the new architecture arrives and if it delivers 30% more performance than HD7970, maybe then, only then I upgrade.
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Originally posted by: Johnny_Rook
I would very very much like to see you gents playing FarCry 3 ULTRA settings @1080p under TriDef S-3D drivers or Eyefinty with a single card, no matter which one!
You might not get a steady 60 frames per second, but I'm thinkin it wouldn't be a slide-show either. I understand not being satisfied with that after having spent the time and money to build a machine like this, but still... there's more computational power in a single high end video card these days than I think most people realize.
Don't get me started about 3DMark... I'll start talking about large values of B again.
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Originally posted by: rayhvh then whats the point of getting crossfire. if its making it worse 100% more
I would very very much like to see you gents playing FarCry 3 ULTRA settings @1080p under TriDef S-3D drivers or Eyefinty with a single card, no matter which one!
Hey....where did the Eyefinity come from....has nothing to do with this post at all. The OP has a single monitor. I play this stupid game @ 1920x1200 with all game settings on Ultra (except post processing) and it runs great. If you want to post your questions...do so, but not in another user's thread, that has nothing to do with your set up. By a Corvette.
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3DMark...There is only one good thing about 3DMark, and that is to be a good "realistic" overclock stability tester. And as far as the HD 5970 goes, it has 4640 GFLOPS of single precision computing power, the 7970 GHz edition has 4300. Now, overclock the 5970 to 5870 speeds and you get 5440 Gflops. Sounds great on paper doesn't it? Except multiple GPU systems in games there is no such thing as 100% scaling, 90% is rare, somewhere in the 80% range is typical, and there's always the possibilities of 0% or even negative scaling if the game isn't coded for it (which AMD will usually hardblock Crossfire in a CAP release). The HD 5970 is a great card, I'm going to use mine until it burns out or blows a capacitor, which being a Sapphire might not be until DirectX 14 cards, but a single GPU is always better than two GPUs with equal or slightly greater on paper power.
I see the link to toms review telling people how bad micro stutter is quite a bit (in a lot of forums), so here's a recent one where they tell you how good Radeon Pro is at eliminating it.
I can't believe AMD hasn't built something like this into their own drivers yet, maybe they should hire the guy that wrote it. It's almost magical... hehe...
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Originally posted by: Max9R I see the link to toms review telling people how bad micro stutter is quite a bit (in a lot of forums), so here's a recent one where they tell you how good Radeon Pro is at eliminating it.
I can't believe AMD hasn't built something like this into their own drivers yet, maybe they should hire the guy that wrote it. It's almost magical... hehe...
Originally posted by: stumped Hey....where did the Eyefinity come from....has nothing to do with this post at all. The OP has a single monitor. I play this stupid game @ 1920x1200 with all game settings on Ultra (except post processing) and it runs great. If you want to post your questions...do so, but not in another user's thread, that has nothing to do with your set up. By a Corvette.
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Have you read the thread at all? Or you just don't remember your own sentences?
It was asked "what's the point on getting Crossfire?"
My answer to you was and still is "Eyefinity and stereoscopic 3D". I just can't play FarCry 3 in Eyefinity @ULTRA with a single-GPU card and decente framerates.
Originally posted by: Mime Don't get me started about 3DMark... I'll start talking about large values of B again.
Originally posted by: black_zion 3DMark...There is only one good thing about 3DMark, and that is to be a good "realistic" overclock stability tester.
WTF
The 3DMark scores was just to enphaticize the fact that HD5970 has about same performance has HD7970
Get off my back dudes!
Originally posted by: black_zion And as far as the HD 5970 goes, it has 4640 GFLOPS of single precision computing power, the 7970 GHz edition has 4300. Now, overclock the 5970 to 5870 speeds and you get 5440 Gflops. Sounds great on paper doesn't it? Except multiple GPU systems in games there is no such thing as 100% scaling, 90% is rare, somewhere in the 80% range is typical, and there's always the possibilities of 0% or even negative scaling if the game isn't coded for it (which AMD will usually hardblock Crossfire in a CAP release). The HD 5970 is a great card, I'm going to use mine until it burns out or blows a capacitor, which being a Sapphire might not be until DirectX 14 cards, but a single GPU is always better than two GPUs with equal or slightly greater on paper power.
I think I know my own card, thank you very much.
Tell me something new.
Originally posted by: Max9R I see the link to toms review telling people how bad micro stutter is quite a bit (in a lot of forums), so here's a recent one where they tell you how good Radeon Pro is at eliminating it.
I can't believe AMD hasn't built something like this into their own drivers yet, maybe they should hire the guy that wrote it. It's almost magical... hehe...
I use Radeon Pro since it was first released (from RC times). Unfortunatelly, it isn't eliminating micro-sttuter in FarCry 3 completely. It has some positive impact, indeed but, also has the CCC custom profile I set to FarCry 3
I do not doubt it can solve the problem to you but, then again, a "triple-GPU" config. has less micro-stutter issues than dual-GPU from the get go.
So far, the best solution to me is to disable crossfire all together but having to cut down the graphics quality to High or Very High
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Originally posted by: stumped Hey....where did the Eyefinity come from....has nothing to do with this post at all. The OP has a single monitor. I play this stupid game @ 1920x1200 with all game settings on Ultra (except post processing) and it runs great. If you want to post your questions...do so, but not in another user's thread, that has nothing to do with your set up. By a Corvette.
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Have you read the thread at all? Or you just don't remember your own sentences?
It was asked "what's the point on getting Crossfire?"
Hello. ive got an club3d. royal king HD7970 in crossfire.
and my far cry 3 performance is horrible. im using the lastest beta drivers and profile cap.
ive got the game legal and original.
this is an video of what happens :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inUsXEM2Tms
im playing on 2560x1440. and its so bad. i want it fixed.isgust;
please help me out.. ""
and "" then whats the point of getting crossfire. if its making it worse 100% more.""
""look at the video""
You butted in with your multimonitor thing. Nobody was talking to you or about eyefinity. As I said , start your on thread and quit hijacking others. Monitors should end this straight away.
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isgust;
NO stutter and butter smooth play.And no noise.