14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

How well will the Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition run 2019 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 330 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

The Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition graphics card is returning a weak performance on Planet Zoo at 1080p of 22 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order which we saw got weak frame rates of 0 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Cyberpunk 2077, which is predicted to get 0 FPS under tests.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Planet Zoo to see how the Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 44 FPS, Medium: 35 FPS, High: 23 FPS and Ultra: 17 FPS. Next we looked at Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order which was weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Cyberpunk 2077 that we predict will get an Ultra 1440p FPS of 0. In summary we feel the Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition running at 1440p is not going to be able to maintain a playable game at this resolution.

How many years will the Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 280X PowerColor TurboDuo 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 PowerColor TurboDuo 3GB OC Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 91% better performance and can run 895 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 43% better and can run 684 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.