This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB 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.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 11.

This low performing GPU is unable to play any of the most demanding games available today.

How many years will the Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

FPS System Benchmark

88 FPS

High

Game

Grand Theft Auto V

The Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition is released on the 08 Mar 2014

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GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 Tahiti XTL

Process

28nm

TMUs

128

Texture Rate

134 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

34 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

2048

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 12.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.4

Resolution (WxH)

4096x2160

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

6144 MB

Memory Speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus

384 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

288GB/sec

L2 Cache

768KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

Power

Max Power

250 Watts

PSU

500 Watt & 38 Amps

Power Connector

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

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Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition is a special edition of the high-end Radeon R9 280X.
This edition comes with a custom cooling system called "Twin Frozr", which reduces the card's temperature under load, significantly and comes overclocked out of the box in the central unit that was increased from 850MHz to 1000MHz, while the Boost clock is now of 1050MHz.
Furthermore, the frame buffer was doubled to 6GB which will only prove very slightly useful since the card itself is not powerful enough to work in circumstances in which that much video memory is required and thus become the bottleneck itself.
Benchmarks indicate a modest 4% performance boost over the standard edition.

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Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 6GB Edition vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i3-9350KF 4-Core 4.0GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 470 4GB

17%

RAM

11GB

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mastermind20

mastermind20's Rig
Saved at: Jan-07-2017

Compared to your Rig

CPU

FX-6300 oc: 30%

GFX

Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 3GB Edition oc: 10%

RAM

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB

mastermind20's Game Library

11:32 Oct-27-2014

will my cx 600m psu work with this card?

Redeyes79

Redeyes79's Rig
Saved at: May-28-2018

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i7-4790K 4-Core 4.0GHz

GFX

GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW+ ACX 2.0+ 4GB Edition SLI

RAM

32GB DDR3 1866MHz

RES

5120 x 900
width x height

Phone

OnePlus One

Redeyes79's Game Library

18:28 Nov-11-2014

Yes it should be fine the Card is only going to use up 250W out of the 600W you have (you will not be able to crossfire two of them though)

mastermind20

mastermind20's Rig
Saved at: Jan-07-2017

Compared to your Rig

CPU

FX-6300 oc: 30%

GFX

Radeon R9 280X MSI Gaming 3GB Edition oc: 10%

RAM

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

Phone

Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB

mastermind20's Game Library

13:16 Nov-12-2014

Thanks (yes i cant crossfire because i cant put 2 cards into my mobo too) but thanks again :)

GD Rating

6

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