Reviewers Liked
- Top performance
- HDMI and displayport slots
- TRI-X cooling
- Factory overclocked
- Gaming performance
- Black Diamond Chokes
- Good looks
- Exceptional cooling
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Very loud
- Overclocking button does not work
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor Tri-X OC 3GB GDDR5 PCIe
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Radeon R9 280X Roundup: Although all five custom Radeon R9 280X cards are much the same in gaming and cooling performance, they still have subtle variations that make some better than others -- and one better than the rest in our opinion.
By TechSpot onThe Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon R9 280X OC Edition is a completely redesigned Radeon R9 280X graphics card, which has almost nothing in common with the reference design. In fact there is a new PCB as well as Sapphires powerful Vapor-X cooler. This...
By Ocaholic onSapphire Radeon R9-280X VaporXSapphire as we all know is AMDs premier partner so we always see cool stuff coming from them, but honestly we had already seen a VaporX 280X so we have all simply been waiting for what would come next such as the much...
By bjorn3d.com onSapphire took an already good product in their R9 280X Vapor-X OC graphics card and “refreshed” it to an even better product. The biggest thing that stands out is the cooling solution on the card. Sapphire has added their Tri-X cooling, which is made up...
By ThinkComputers onSapphire was the first AIB partner to fully embrace the benefits of Vapor-X cooling back in 2008 when it introduced Vapor-X cooling to the masses on the limited edition HD 3870 Atomic. From that point on Sapphire has taken the technology to new heights an...
By Overclockers Club onI had the pleasure to review three of the cards out of AMD's new R7 and R9 series: previously the R7 260X and R9 270X, and now the R9 280X under the Sapphire Vapor-X brand.The R9 280X Vapor-X is a great looking card, with an excellent performance to...
By reviewstudio.net onWhen the AMD R9 280X launched the first R9 280X we tested was Sapphire's Vapor-X model . In our review we noted that the while the performance was good and the temperatures were reasonable, the acoustic performance was far from impressive. Here we are 6...
By eTeknix onPerhaps fortunately, AMD's reference Radeon R9 280X is a bit of a phantom outside our own labs. If you're shopping for one of these Tahiti-based boards, you're looking at third-party solutions. We round up seven models and show what makes them different....
By Tom's Hardware onAmpliando aún más la gama de tarjetas de video, Sapphire nos presenta un ejemplar en el unifica gran parte de sus tecnologías, tales como “Vapor-X Technology ” y “SAPPHIRE Tri-X Cooling Technology”. Rediseñando el modelo Vapor-X de la serie...
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A Valle di quest' analisi, possiamo ritenerci abbastanza soddisfatti dalla scheda oggi recensita. La politica di Sapphire, orientata da sempre ad offrire soluzioni fortemente orientate alla soddisfazione del cliente, ha dato ancora una volta i suoi...
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