10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

What FPS performance can the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition get on latest AAA 2023 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 232 games in the list.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition is running Days Gone and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 30 frames per second. Comparing this to Back 4 Blood which is getting weak results, where it averages 21 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Grand Theft Auto VI, which is predicted to run at 0 frames per second.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Days Gone and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 60 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 32 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. We then checked the performance on Back 4 Blood to see if that runs well. It was weak with a 16 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p gaming on the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R9 280X Club3D royalKing Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB as this is better than 716 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 52% better performance as well. Alternatively we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300, as it can run 300 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 21% increased graphics performance.