Reviewers Liked
- Excellent performance
- Excellent overclocking
- Great cooling capacity
- Overclocks well
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Price
- Tiny out of the box overclock
- Aggressive fanspeed profile
Sapphire Radeon R9 280 DUAL-X OC with Boost 3GB GDDR5 PCIe
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By Ocaholic
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With the Dual-X R9 280 OC Edition, Sapphire has a Radeon R9 280 graphics card in their portfolio, which is based on a custom PCB as well as a custom cooler. Apart from that this pixel accelerator also features an attractive price and therefore we're...
By reviewstudio.net
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AMD released the new R9 280 GPU to fill the blanks between R9 270X and R9 280X, but also to compete with GTX 770 at a lower price. Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X is a very good graphics card, with great gaming performance, but with a price a little too...
By daveplays.co.uk
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Once again a very impressive card from Sapphire, taking a couple of steps up over the 260X reviewed a few weeks ago, the Sapphire R9-280 Dual-X is a card that has brilliant performance. It chewed through the benchmark tests as well as any game I played...
By Tom's Hardware
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With the individual benchmarks behind us, let's consider average performance across those tests. The following chart is based on our DirectX-based results, and does not take Mantle into account. Its no surprise that the Dual-X cooler allows the R9...
By Tom's Hardware UK
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With the individual benchmarks behind us, let's consider average performance across those tests. The following chart is based on our DirectX-based results, and does not take Mantle into account. Its no surprise that the Dual-X cooler allows the...
By Legit Reviews
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Sapphire provides a small factory overclock on the Dual-X R9 280, taking the reference design from 827Mhz (933Mhz boost) to 850Mhz (940Mhz boost). Which should provide a small boost to performance compared to other 280 cards based on the reference...
By Techgage
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As seen throughout our results, Sapphire's R9 280 Dual-X edges out EVGA's GTX 760 Superclocked on the performance front, although the gains are modest – it's not as though one card should move up or down a tier. The GTX 760′s biggest gain was seen on...
By LanOC Reviews
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With this being the first R9 280 that we have had the pleasure to take a look at. I am happy to finally confirm that you don't have to go all out with an R9 280X or higher to enjoy the best of todays games. The Dual-X R9 280 OC plowed through our in...
By HEXUS.net
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AMD's partners have relied on a succession of price cuts and tweaks to long-standing GPU architectures for their premium graphics offerings in 2014. This is no bad thing if the cards are priced appropriately and continue to offer meaningful competition...
By Nexthardware
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Il lavoro svolto da SAPPHIRE per la nuova R9 280 in versione Dual-X è di ottimo livello. Le basi di partenza erano già solide e, grazie all'utilizzo dell'efficiente sistema di raffreddamento proprietario Dual-X e dei discreti margini di overclock...
By OCinside
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Die ersten AMD Radeon R9 380 Grafikkarten mit 2GB und 4GB wurden bereits veröffentlicht. Bevor wir aber zu den 3xx Grafikkarten kommen, möchten wir uns heute nochmal eine preiswerte AMD Radeon R9 280 Grafikkarte ansehen. Genauer gesagt, testen wir die...
By hd-tecnologia.com
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La gráfica se comportó de excelente manera en nuestras pruebas, superando en la mayoría de las pruebas a la EVGA GTX 760 SuperClocked, teniendo un precio menor, ya que actualmente podemos conseguirla por $3530, frente a los $4690 de la EVGA GTX 760 SC.Su...
By Hardwareluxx
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Mit der Radeon R9 280 hat sich AMD ein im Preisbereich von etwas weniger als 200 Euro interessantes Modelle der Radeon-R9-Serie erschaffen. Insgesamt muss man aber immer wieder erwähnen, dass es durch die zahlreichen Modelle für den Käufer nicht leicht...
By Tom's Hardware
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Wir haben erneut zwei Karten zugefügt, wobei die Sapphire R9 280X VaporX Tri-X in unserem Feld nun die mit Abstand leiseste Karte ist, obwohl auch die temperaturwerte ins Spitzenfeld gehören. Somit wäre aktuell diese Karte unser aktueller Tipp, wenn es...
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