What is crossfiring

[Pcmatic184]

i was wondering what the term crossfiring means. i saw a video where a guy crossed fired his amd a10 6800k and a graphics card. whatr do this mean

 

[lilbabycat]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=crossfire+video+card

 

[jbltecnicspro]

Crossfiring is AMD's market-speak for combining the processing power of two (or more) graphics processing units together to render scenes. In the best situations, pairing two identical video cards would effectively double the performance of the single card. The person crossfiring his A10-6800k is simply using its on-board GPU together with a video card to increase the performance in games.

 

[Krieger91]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_CrossFireX

 

[LeninGHOLA]

It's what racist people in the South used to do.

 

[polonyc2]

The person crossfiring his A10-6800k is simply using its on-board GPU together with a video card to increase the performance in games.

I didn't even know you could combine onboard with a discreet card

 

[Wrecklusive]

I think this explains it pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

 

[jbltecnicspro]

I think this explains it pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

I actually thought of linking this.

 

[jbltecnicspro]

I didn't even know you could combine onboard with a discreet card

Only certain low-end cards.
Edit: officially I think it's the radeon HD-6670, but I've seen videos claiming to crossfire the HD-7750.