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AMD Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire

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Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games.

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

The Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire meets a reasonable number of the most demanding game requirements of today. 21 % of the demanding games are playable.

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? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

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129 FPS
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The Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire is released on the 08 Oct 2013
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Architecture
GCN 1.1 Tahiti XTL (x2) (x2)
Process
28nm
TMUs
128
Texture Rate
274 GTexel/s
ROPs
32 (x2)
Pixel Rate
68 GPixel/s
Shader
Processing Units
4096
Driver Support
-
Release Price
Compatibility
Direct X
DX 11.2
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.3
Resolution (WxH)
4096x2160
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
6144 MB
Memory Speed
1550 MHz
Memory Bus
384 Bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
595.2GB/sec
L2 Cache
768KB(x2)
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
0
DVI Connection
1
HDMI Connection
1
DisplayPort Connection
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
950 MHz
Boost Clock
1070 MHz
Power
Max Power
500 Watts
PSU
Power Connector
None
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Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz
Best RAM Match
8 GB
Best Resolution
2560 x 1440
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Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition Crossfire Game Requirement Analysis

The Crossfire setup of Radeon R9 280X Sapphire Vapor-X 3GB OC Edition.


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