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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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