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Guru3D.com » Review » AMD Radeon R7-260X R9-270X and R9-280X review 4

AMD Radeon R7-260X R9-270X and R9-280X review 4

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/08/2013 06:02 AM [ 71 comment(s) ]

Today we'll review AMD Radeon R7-260X, R9-270X and R9-280X - So aloha everyone, after many moons it is finally time for AMD to release their new product series. The new R7 and R9 graphics are finally here and the upcoming weeks we are all going to see many new products in the AMD Radeon line-up. Some stuff are respin products, and others are of course totally new. We'll brief you trough it all though.

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Raiga
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Posts: 1099
Posted on: 10/08/2013 07:06 AM
There is no difference between R9 280x and 7970.

sverek
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Posts: 6073
Posted on: 10/08/2013 07:19 AM
There is no difference between R9 280x and 7970.

Reread article. There is difference and optimizations.

I can't complain about 280x, its very nice card for its price as 7970. Now we can pick cheaper 7970 or slightly faster 280x for affordable price.

Looking forward for 290x!

Thanks for review!

WhiteLightning



Posts: 29361
Posted on: 10/08/2013 07:21 AM
has a better fan (lower dba whilst lower temperature) , very nice at this price!

i read on another review on tweakers that the driver is whining if there is no CFX bridge connected. they were also getting poor performance in eyefinity. So it needs a driver update!

Apparantly also PCIE-3 is also needed for this bridgeless technology due to the bandwidth. (but previous cards with pcie-3 support are also supported it seems)

Solfaur
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Posted on: 10/08/2013 07:46 AM
Nice review, though a bit lame that all of them are refreshes of the last generation. From what I've seen in those charts I suspect the 290X to be between a Titan and a 780 in performance, what I really care about is the price though. All the cards in this review have good prices, I wonder if they can keep that up with 290/290X.

drac
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Posted on: 10/08/2013 08:03 AM
Apparantly also PCIE-3 is also needed for this bridgeless technology due to the bandwidth. (but previous cards with pcie-3 support are also supported it seems)


"Especially with standards like PCI-E Gen 3.0 there's plenty of bandwidth there, but even at Gen 2.0, it really isn't an issue"


3.0 is in fact not required. Also what I gather from that is whether you are using PCI 2.0 or 3.0, the performance difference will be very minimal with a 2x xfire setup.

Might be reading into things a bit much... but I haven't seen any info to disprove this...

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