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CrossFire activated on the 2013 Mac Pro

barefeats

barefeats

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Notice the gains in speed afforded by the built-in CrossFire connection on the new Mac Pro:

http://barefeats.com/tube07.html

I included an illustration of the gains using CrossFire with dual R9 270s on a 2010 Mac Pro tower.
 
Interesting...

My D7000 is on it's way.

How does one implement CrossFire on the nMP ?
- I'm a Mac user since 1989 and keep away from Windows for a reason, but thinking of using Bootcamp so as to play some games at the end of the day.
 
Yes.. looking forward to more D700 tests.

Its cool to read that the Firepro cards are already "physically" cross-fired in the nMP.

I hope OSX leverages that in a OS update soon. I would think more than games could leverage that.

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Yes.. looking forward to more D700 tests.

Its cool to read that the Firepro cards are already "physically" cross-fired in the nMP.

I hope OSX leverages that in a OS update soon. I would think more than games could leverage that.
 
What is interesting that OS X gets more FPS out of Diablo III than Windows when you don't enable crossfire on Windows.

Must be a first.
 
Thanks for posting. 98fps and 130fps on D500 crossfire is a great result as far as gaming is concerned. My sweet spot is 120fps in any game so my 120Hz gaming monitor can be fully utilised. It makes a big difference where First person shooters are concerned on my PC rig. I would think that the D700's should achieve that based on this test. :D
 
barefeats said:
Notice the gains in speed afforded by the built-in CrossFire connection on the new Mac Pro:

http://barefeats.com/tube07.html

I included an illustration of the gains using CrossFire with dual R9 270s on a 2010 Mac Pro tower.
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When you test the D700's using CrossFire, be great if you could test some more games like Battlefield 4 / Far cry 3 / Metro

Only if you can :)
 
BDM STUDIOS NL said:
& CoD Ghosts? :D
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That is such a poor import from consoles. Played it in my clan for a few months and the amount of tinkering around we had to do (on the PC's) for almost every member was crazy. Then they introduced Fur and Turbulence creating a whole new sleuth of hardware issues. Shame as the game is quite good when you get it running well. I left it last month due to the amount of unbanned hackers still running amok.

Will not buy another Infinity Ward game again.
 
Anim said:
That is such a poor import from consoles. Played it in my clan for a few months and the amount of tinkering around we had to do (on the PC's) for almost every member was crazy. Then they introduced Fur and Turbulence creating a whole new sleuth of hardware issues. Shame as the game is quite good when you get it running well. I left it last month due to the amount of unbanned hackers still running amok. Will not buy another Infinity Ward game again.
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Still playing the SP missions. Running smooth on my rig @ 60fps with all ultra settings. I never bothered about the little FPS gain all those new (beta) drivers promised so still very happy with the 310.90 WHQL on my EVGA GTX670 PC edition. I really love the graphics and the sound of the game.

Today IW seeded a patch for PC including banning more of those cheating idiots, but perhaps I'll just only will play the SP.

Jan. 28, 2014
Title Update: Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC
NOTE: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 update scheduled for Jan 29th.
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http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200795177#.UugPHWTb9N0

GL & Cheers
 
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Sinx2oic said:
When you test the D700's using CrossFire, be great if you could test some more games like Battlefield 4 / Far cry 3 / Metro

Only if you can :)
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There is another gaming thread on the front page of the forum, somebody managed to force a crossfire BF3 profile to his BF4 exe and it doubled the FPS and removed the stuttering :eek: I think he said around 80fps on a D700 12 core at ultra.

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BDM STUDIOS NL said:
Still playing the SP missions. Running smooth on my rig @ 60fps with all ultra settings. I never bothered about the little FPS gain all those new (beta) drivers promised so still very happy with the 310.90 WHQL on my EVGA GTX670 PC edition. I really love the graphics and the sound of the game.

Today IW seeded a patch for PC for banning more of those cheating idiots, but perhaps I'll just only will play the SP.

GL & Cheers
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Aye, I was one of the lucky ones that had zero issues from day one on a EVGA GTX 760. I think it was the high end hardware that would cause freezes and lockups. e.g. Titans, 780, and 780Ti's. Thanks for the notice about the patch, will go have a read.

Patch notes are quite good: http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200800895#.UugPJXk4leU
 
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Anim said:
There is another gaming thread on the front page of the forum, somebody managed to force a crossfire BF3 profile to his BF4 exe and it doubled the FPS and removed the stuttering :eek: I think he said around 80fps on a D700 12 core at ultra.
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Yea I'm on that thread too, seems like good news. Be amazing if that FPS was at 2560x1440! Yea that's the 12 core too, maybe the 8 core will produce even better results. :)
 
barefeats said:
Notice the gains in speed afforded by the built-in CrossFire connection on the new Mac Pro:

http://barefeats.com/tube07.html

I included an illustration of the gains using CrossFire with dual R9 270s on a 2010 Mac Pro tower.
Click to expand...

This is very interesting Barefeats (www.barefeats.com/tube11.html) I have the same 2009 8 core and getting the same 2013 8 core.

Now you have your new 8 core 2013, could you do some D700 vs other GPU's for multiple games. Cheers :)
 
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