The Radeon R9 280X Review: Feat. Asus & XFX - Meet The Radeon 200 Series
by Ryan Smith on October 8, 2013 12:01 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Our major multiplayer action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 3, DICE’s 2011 multiplayer military shooter. Its ability to pose a significant challenge to GPUs has been dulled some by time and drivers, but it’s still a challenge if you want to hit the highest settings at the highest resolutions at the highest anti-aliasing levels. Furthermore while we can crack 60fps in single player mode, our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, so hitting high framerates here may not be high enough.
Our Battlefield 3 benchmark is another game that traditionally favors NVIDIA, and that’s especially the case here. The 280X is generally well ahead of the GTX 760, but in this case the two are almost at parity. We’re essentially looking at GTX 760 performance for the 280X under BF3. If Battlefield 4 performs similarly, then AMD’s interest in Mantle and its performance improvements will be well placed.
Looking once more at our FCAT results, the delta percentages are extremely unremarkable. For most games this is going to be little more than a checklist; neither party has significant problems with single-GPU configurations at this time.
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rs2 - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Would still appreciate an explanation regarding what those FP64 ratings actually mean.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
FP64 execution speed relative to FP32 execution speed.aTaoZ - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Love how you guys posted the specs for R9 290X.Rogatti - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - link
Mantle factor think is relevant (GCN any version)After R290..X review all the cards on the table...probably Christmas 2014 will be AMD
AMD is playing right...
swindmill - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
"What AMD is doing is more than putting on a new coat of paint on the 7000 series but at the same time let’s be clear here: these products are still largely unchanged from the products we’ve seen almost 2 years ago."WTF does this even mean? It's a fracking rebadge, stop trying to make it seem otherwise! Anandtech is clearly on AMD's payroll...
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
Jet lag can make your writing skills unclear. Especially when from tropical island locales, even if it was weeks ago. It happens.Cut the man some slack. ;)
DMCalloway - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
Asus' German site is already showing a R9 280X Matrix. If pricing follows the usual 1 to 1 conversion rate with the Euro then it should retail for a little over $300 here in the States. 12 phase power with an 1100 clock. Strong card for the money IMO. 7970 Matrix is still at $400.Soarta - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
I'd like to know what are the core and memory freq. when the card is idle and connected to more than 1 display, not all of them being connected thru DP.narfsalot - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
Any idea whether a Corsair VX550 will handle the 280x? no OC plannedDMCalloway - Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - link
41A on a single 12V line, you should be fine unless you're running a high OC on a 130W cpu. These cards like most 7970's have a 300W limit.