Noise, Power Consumption and Temperatures
Noise
Sapphire’s 0dB fan mode is extremely useful to maintain quiet operation during web browsing and casual gaming. Once stressed, the noise output is decent for two products running side by side but it’s much louder than a single graphics solution.
Power Consumption
As expected, the two cards in unison consume a lot of power and it’s something to take into consideration if you’re worried about your system’s efficiency and power bills.
Temperatures
Ascertaining the core temperature for both cores was conducted via GPU-Z with the average figure being displayed. As you can see, the graphics cards don’t heat up substantially and this probably helped by the 1 PCI-E slot gap to improve airflow.
Well we might see better multigpu support now that Microsoft is trying to push it by giving free examples and code on Github.
Thanks for the review.
You’re welcome! Yep, I hope so but not expecting any change for a while, considering doing a similar article with the RX 460 but could require some tweaks with the games.
I don’t know how many will be interested for an RX 460 CF setup. Two RX 460 will have less stream processors and still cost more than one RX 470. Probably for that reason there are not going to be enough or any reviews out there, testing a CF setup with two RX 460. eteknix could end up as one of the few having such a review.
FYI Ashes of the Singularity mGPU only works if Crossfire is disabled since it uses the cards independently rather than “synced”
>does an article about CF
>picks games which dont support mGPU
I go into detail why that’s the case to show the current state of Crossfire/SLI in the usual test bench including DX12 and Vulkan. Then I included Shadow of Mordor to show that there is cases when the scaling works pretty well. Surely, the issue is that many games don’t support multi-GPU and changing the testing to show ones which do seems to give an unfair reflection.
GTAV scales extremely well. Where is it?
I can only benchmark so many games within a certain time period and I once again state that the idea of changing the games doesn’t show how Crossfire works in our test bench. If people prefer to see the benchmarks for Crossfire only games even if they’re old and doesn’t show the experience people will have with modern games then that’s something to look into. Please don’t make demands, I’m only trying to produce honest content and reviews are a length process especially with NDAs.
Also , where’s the full comparison vs other cards on shadow of mordor? Can’t help but get the feeling that the review is done in such a way as to trash and downplay the idea of crossfire in favor of subsequently recommending a higher specced, higher price Nvidia gpu…..
Someone pointed this out and the comment was removed. This is from the oxide developers specifically:
“For best performance, disable Crossfire/SLI directly in the AMD or Nvidia Control Panels”
As stated in the review, I tried that too but it didn’t work.
1060 SLI?.
not sli for 1060 only for 70 and 80
Hooo, que pena…