10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC 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.

Lets look at the Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2022. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 237.

The Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition graphics card is returning a playable performance on Days Gone at 1080p of 30 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Forza Horizon 5 which we saw got weak frame rates of 21 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Battlefield 2042, which was getting 0 FPS under tests.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Days Gone to see how the Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 60 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 32 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. Next we looked at Forza Horizon 5 which was weak with a 16 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Battlefield 2042 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 0. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition is going to struggle at this higher gaming resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC 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 Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon R9 280X Gigabyte 3GB OC Edition is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, which is 52% more powerful and can run 725 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 21% better and can meet 304 of their recommended requirements.