ASUS Radeon R9 280X Review
Test Setup, Overclocking and Temps
Published: 8th October 2013 | Source: ASUS | Price: £274.99 |
Test Setup
ASUS Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.6GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H100i
Windows 7 x64
Overclocking
If anyone doubted that this is really just a renamed HD7970 then GPUz tells the full story. The ASUS DirectCU II cooler does an excellent job of allowing us plenty of headroom to overclock, with a good increase on the GPU core of 80MHz, and a serious boost on the memory, up by 800MHz effective.
Temperatures
The DirectCU II cooler performs well, keeping the 280X nice and cool even under our most stressful tests.
Most Recent Comments
For someone needing to update this card will kick some serious ass can't wait to see the review of the R9-290XQuote
How do we CFX it when the cooler blocks them? Well i guess you can use the bendy ones.Quote
It would be nice when the 290X comes out if you could weave in there somehow, how fantastic these cards are at folding.Quote
As someone thats just updated there rig, i like the asus new card over there old version, this card is 2 slot and not 3 slot, and on a side note, sapphire R8 280X cards, now have uefi support, sweeet 
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QuoteIs it just me or were there a few benchmarks where thee 7970 out performed the 280 x. I found that really unusual/confusing
As for the now confirmed pricing I can see how that bumped it up to gold award because you can essential crossfire 280x for just over the price of a single 7970 when they were releasedQuote
As for the now confirmed pricing I can see how that bumped it up to gold award because you can essential crossfire 280x for just over the price of a single 7970 when they were releasedQuote
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