With the R9 280X, AMD hopes to take on Nvidia by offering a card that is faster than the GTX 760 and on par with the GTX 770 but costs $299 instead of the $249 of the GTX 760 or $399 of the GTX 770.

The R9 280X runs away with it in Mass Effect Andromeda, hitting 81fps on average or about 14% faster than the GTX 680. It also edged out the GTX 1050 Ti and crushed the GTX 1050.

The MSI Radeon R9 280X OC Edition is a faster, smarter, cheaper Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, and it’s much faster than Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 760. AMD has scored big with the gaming-console ...

The R9 280X is based on the 28nm Tahiti XT2 core (4.3 billion transistors) which features 32 compute units and 2048 stream processors based on Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.

The Sapphire R9 280X 3GB TOXIC is a great looking card as you can see above in our introduction image. You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, though, as they say, so we won't read into it too much.

Power Consumption & Temperatures. All R9 280X cards allowed for a total system power consumption of between 50 and 53 watts at idle. The MSI R9 280X Gaming and HIS R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Turbo ...

As we mentioned at the start, the MSI R9 280X 6GB Twin Frozr Gaming OC is indeed an OC card, meaning it comes overclocked out of the box. Coming in at 1050MHz on the core, this is 50MHz up on the ...

What’s more, even when it heats up, the Toxic R9 280X does not get very loud. Last week we tested the XFX DD R9 280X 1000M, which is more quiet, but it’s a reference clocked card. Once it’s ...

We noted in our original R9 280X review that the latest AMD cards do very well in BioShock Infinite, and MSI's version continues this trend, actually beating the GTX 770 at 1080p and basically ...

We’re going to compare and contrast the Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X, and Radeon R7 260X to their most closely-related cousins in the Radeon HD 7000 series, since the cards are ultimately very similar.

The Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Windforce 3X OC is the first Radeon R9 series card from Gigabyte to reach our test lab. Right out of the box, the card sports an overclocked AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU that is ...

When 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 ...