AMD Radeon RX 590 Crossfire and the State of Multi-GPU Technology

[daDaffmeistah]

Unless you're gonna do these in 4k, these test you folks are doing aren't worth all that much.
We're almost in 2019, I had a 1080p monitor 10 years ago folks, come on now folks.

 

[loki1944]

The amount of games not supporting Crossfire correctly, or even at all, is staggering.
Not picking on AMD.

And yet it's still more than the support for RTX.

I think SLI or NVLink would be a more apt comparison,

 

[Rastamandito]

Hello,
thanks for this article. I was looking for some benchmarks with crossfire setups.
I think the point is, that you dont have to use rx590. The difference between rx480,580&590 is not so big in my opinion. so maybe we can build a cheap and strong crossfire setup with older cards.
I will try this with two rx480.
can you please tell me which driver did you use and how u set it up?
no hardware connect between the cards is needed right?
is here someone who have tried to use an old driver with an classic crossfire connect between the cards? it could be working too (maybe )

 

[ddferrari]

When SLI (and crossfire) first came out, I just shook my head at the idea. I thought of it as nothing more than a cash grab. Here it is years later and I'm still shaking my head wondering why people do it. Just makes no sense to me with the extra price, extra problems with drivers, extra draw of electricity, for a minimal gain in benchmarks (when if not paying attention at benchmark numbers and just playing the damn game, you're probably not going to notice/feel any difference to write home about anyway). I'm just not spending the extra bucks to have two vid cards in my system. All I would get out of it is the feeling of Nvidia ripping me off 'again'.

Wow, it's as if Nvidia stuck a gun in your face...

When you willingly buy something that isn't essential (unlike food, water and electricity), you are not being "ripped off". It was your choice all along.

 

[ddferrari]

Hello,
thanks for this article. I was looking for some benchmarks with crossfire setups.
I think the point is, that you dont have to use rx590. The difference between rx480,580&590 is not so big in my opinion. so maybe we can build a cheap and strong crossfire setup with older cards.
I will try this with two rx480.
can you please tell me which driver did you use and how u set it up?
no hardware connect between the cards is needed right?
is here someone who have tried to use an old driver with an classic crossfire connect between the cards? it could be working too (maybe )

Try GOOGLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Fw3_HcciU&ab_channel=HowzerTech

 

[CorneliousRR]

'Kay, cool, made a new account just to point this out, but y'all did not label this article right, and used the wrong hardware. IDK how y'all messed this up but what you ACTUALLY tested was the RX 580 XXX Edition 8GB model NOT the RX 590. Why is that the case? BECAUSE I OWN A XXX CARD!

Here's what the ACTUAL RX 590 is: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/radeon-rx-590

And this is a listing for the RX 580 XXX: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150803

Notice the difference? Because I sure did, BUT, I'm not necessarily mad at this, just pointing it out for people viewing this article. I'm ultimately happy because it means you all did the benchmark work for my exact card in Crossfire that I could not find anywhere else, just make sure to double check which cards you're using next time and change the title of this article. Thanks again for the work put in, now I know how it'll fair.

 

[GeforcerFX]

'Kay, cool, made a new account just to point this out, but y'all did not label this article right, and used the wrong hardware. IDK how y'all messed this up but what you ACTUALLY tested was the RX 580 XXX Edition 8GB model NOT the RX 590. Why is that the case? BECAUSE I OWN A XXX CARD!

Here's what the ACTUAL RX 590 is: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/radeon-rx-590

And this is a listing for the RX 580 XXX: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150803

Notice the difference? Because I sure did, BUT, I'm not necessarily mad at this, just pointing it out for people viewing this article. I'm ultimately happy because it means you all did the benchmark work for my exact card in Crossfire that I could not find anywhere else, just make sure to double check which cards you're using next time and change the title of this article. Thanks again for the work put in, now I know how it'll fair.

cough.. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150817 cough...

 

[CorneliousRR]

'Kay, cool, made a new account just to point this out, but y'all did not label this article right, and used the wrong hardware. IDK how y'all messed this up but what you ACTUALLY tested was the RX 580 XXX Edition 8GB model NOT the RX 590. Why is that the case? BECAUSE I OWN A XXX CARD!

Here's what the ACTUAL RX 590 is: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/radeon-rx-590

And this is a listing for the RX 580 XXX: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150803

Notice the difference? Because I sure did, BUT, I'm not necessarily mad at this, just pointing it out for people viewing this article. I'm ultimately happy because it means you all did the benchmark work for my exact card in Crossfire that I could not find anywhere else, just make sure to double check which cards you're using next time and change the title of this article. Thanks again for the work put in, now I know how it'll fair.

cough.. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150817 cough...

No yeah I was actually going to come back and make an addendum to what I said, because after doing more research I had found a similar listing for the Fat Boy, though, it should still be listed as such in the article to avoid confusion, me being the prime example. XD

 

[TheMadAsshatter]

Decision making often is made around planned obsolescence... Show me a company that makes toasters that last 300 years and I'll show you a company that will crumble under poor sales figures. What they don't want is to have their customers who bought their shiny new GPU "X" 3 years ago going out and buying another one at a fraction of the price and ending up with (roughly) the same power as their much awaited GPU "Y" that has a premium price for those people who tend to get a raging ladyboner over whatever is the latest cool new thing.