Reviewers Liked
- Good performance
- Great over clockability
- Cool running temps
- New Hawaii features at slightly lower price point
- Excellent stock performance
- Phenomenal overclocking capabilities
- Quiet fans up to 40% PWM, custom PCB
- Lower power draw than predecessor
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Large price increase over 280
- Only 2GB of memory
- Non reference board makes likelihood of fullcover water block small
- Still requires two six pin cables instead of one eight pin
- 2 GB VRAM compared to 3 GB on the R9 280
- Quite slow as performance has not improved
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