Product Photos -HIS Radeon R9-280X IceQ X2 Turbo
So the HIS IceQ X2 Turbo edition R9-280X is a 3GB version with that popular IceQ X2 cooler. It actually has two 8-pin PCI-E PEG power connectors and a dual BIOS as well.
The 280X is armed with 3GB to to get you a little more leash with resolutions and image quality settings. But let's quickly look at the packaging first shall we ?
Included with all cards will be a manual and a demo and driver CD, power converters and monitor connector converters. The card has been designed to be a nice match for QHD gaming, up-to 2560x1440. The reality though is that the Radeon R9 280X honestly is little more then a Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition with the same GPU, a few BIOS tweaks and a new cooler slapped on top of it.
We see a blue looking card from HIS. The 4.3 billion-transistor 28nm Tahiti Pro based core is tied to a massive 3GB memory -- which is plenty by any standard for a product in this range. Being Radeon HD 7970 GHz (Tahiti XT2/XTL) based also means that the specs are fairly similar, 2048 shader processor running up-to a core frequency of 1 GHz. The 3GB GDDR5 graphics memory runs on a 384-bit wide bus. Honestly I can't report anything new or surprising here other then it might throttle a little higher on the clock frequency and that it has a slightly higher memory band-with.
