ASUS Radeon R9 280X Review

ASUS Radeon R9 280X Review

Test Setup

ASUS Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.6GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H100i
Windows 7 x64  

Overclocking

If anyone doubted that this is really just a renamed HD7970 then GPUz tells the full story. The ASUS DirectCU II cooler does an excellent job of allowing us plenty of headroom to overclock, with a good increase on the GPU core of 80MHz, and a serious boost on the memory, up by 800MHz effective.

ASUS Radeon R9 280X Review

Temperatures

The DirectCU II cooler performs well, keeping the 280X nice and cool even under our most stressful tests.

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