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12-28-2020 12:43 PM - edited 12-28-2020 03:07 PM
I have a Z820 Workstation that my son uses for gaming.
Specs are:
Dual Intel Xeon CPUs E5-2630 (6 core 12 thread) @ 2.30GHz
64 GB DDR3 Ram @1333Hz
AMD FirePro V7900 Graphics Card 2GB GDDR5
1TB Samsung SSD 860 Hard Drive
850w Power Supply
A recently installed game requires a more recent driver than my FirePro V7900 uses (version 15.201.2401.1010 2/16/2017). I searched through
the AMD website to find an older FirePro card that uses recent drivers.
I've ordered a FirePro W7000 which uses up to date drivers (version 20.Q4 11/10/2020). This card should be a nice little upgrade on it's own, but I'm curious if we'll be able to use the V7900 in tandem. If yes, is the 850w power supply capable of powering this proposed configuration?
Thanks in advance for any input.
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12-28-2020 11:08 PM
if you mean can the cards work in tandem, then the answer is no crossfire requires that the cards be the same
next the w7000 is a much better card than the 7900, even two 7900's will not be any faster than the w7000
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/firepro-w7000.c587
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/firepro-v7900.c580
if a game does not run, it's usually because the video card does not support a necessary instruction such a vulkan or DX12 to name two of the most common ones if this is the case, you need to upgrade the video card usually as the above two items are hardware based
12-28-2020 11:08 PM
if you mean can the cards work in tandem, then the answer is no crossfire requires that the cards be the same
next the w7000 is a much better card than the 7900, even two 7900's will not be any faster than the w7000
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/firepro-w7000.c587
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/firepro-v7900.c580
if a game does not run, it's usually because the video card does not support a necessary instruction such a vulkan or DX12 to name two of the most common ones if this is the case, you need to upgrade the video card usually as the above two items are hardware based
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