10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire 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.

DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

How well will the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire run 2022 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 616.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire shows us that Days Gone is getting a reasonable result of 53 FPS, and then we are seeing Resident Evil 8 returning a playable 25 FPS while another game on our list is the Grand Theft Auto VI which is predicted to get 25 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Resident Evil 8 to see how the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire dealt with it. It scored up a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 49 FPS, Medium: 39 FPS, High: 26 FPS and Ultra: 19 FPS. Next we looked at Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict will be weak with a 19 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Days Gone that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 40. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire we get the impression that it is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 30 Series GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 53% better and can meet 972 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB, which is 46% more powerful and can run 961 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.