Amd confirms that the rx 5700 does not have crossfire support

With the launch of the new RX 5700 graphics cards, a question was raised about their feature set. Does it support CrossFire? In other words, if the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700XT would support multi-GPU configurations. AMD was quick to respond.

AMD has released the following statement about RX 5700 and its support for CrossFire

RX 5700 series GPUs support CrossFire in 'Explicit' multi-GPU mode when running a DX12 or Vulkan game that supports multiple GPUs. The old 'implicit' mode used by legacy DX9 / 11 / OpenGL titles is not supported.

What does this mean? For starters, this means that CrossFire is not compatible with the Navi RX 5700 series. PC gamers shouldn't expect to run Navi in ​​a multi-GPU setup, at least in the rare use of "explicit" multi-GPU in some occasional title. DirectX 12 or Vulkan. This level of multi-GPU support is still rare in modern game titles, which means that in most cases multi-GPU support is not possible with Navi.

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Multi-GPU support has become unreliable in recent years, with fewer and fewer games supporting this feature. Also, a single more powerful graphics card is almost always better than combining two smaller graphics cards in SLI, CrossFire, or other multi-GPU configuration. This is one of the reasons that Nvidia has removed SLI / NVLink support from its low-end Pascal and Turing range.

While AMD's lack of implicit CrossFire compatibility with its Navi series graphics cards may be disappointing to some, it 's hard to see that a multi-GPU configuration of RX 5700 or RX 5700XT might be worth recommending to PC gamers seen the panorama.

The RX 5700 series is already available in stores.

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