The R9 280X is our Editors Choice for this segment, but. "It is facing a very tough time against the R9 280 at the same price.Įven at 1,100+ it won’t compete against the R9 280 at 970mhz. The AMD R9 270X currently ships with a Never Settle Forever two-game bundle, while the MSI R9 280X shares the R9 280s three-game offer. Here is a review which says it as it sees it These are games where OCing won't help the GTX 760 to catch up. Also BF4 and Metro don't figure in OC results.
Even when overlocked in these 3 games the edge will remain with R9 280 OC as the gap is significant. MSI R9 280 GAMING 3G: AMD Radeon R9 280, 3GB 384-bit GDDR5, Mini DisplayPort x2, DL-DVI-I, HDMI, PCI express 3.0 graphics card. Mining RVN with a Radeon r9 280x I have one MSI R9 280X laying around my house (dont know where atm), should I bother looking for it and plugging it into my PC to mine some RVN Ive read somewhere that cards with less than 4GB arent worth it. So out of 5 games in 3 games the MSI R9 280 OC provides better performance out of the box and higher playable settings. In Tombraider too you mention the MSI R9 280 OC is playable at 2560 x 1600 FXAA Highest settings Normal Hair. If you believe PNY GTX 770 OC in Metro Last Light at at 2560 x 1600 Very High AAA with avg 40.8 fps min 27 fps is borderline playable but you still publish it as Highest playable settings why do you not do the same for MSI R9 280 OC which has avg 40.6 fps min 29 fps for the same settings. btw there is a world of inconsistency in Highest playable settings across different reviews for the same performance. The conclusion is not reflecting the performance difference seen in the actual benchmark scores.The performance edge that the MSI R9 280 OC possess over GTX 760 at 2560 x 1600 is due to the higher memory bandwidth and not the 3GB VRAM. In this evaluation we saw a slight edge go to the MSI R9 280 GAMING OC, which was also more practical at 2560x1600 thanks to the 3GB of memory, as opposed to the 2GB on the GeForce GTX 760."
Note that i am installing the drivers from AMD website. Not sure if its the fault with graphics card of software. After restarting the PC, the screen shows up as black again and doesnt respond.
While trying to install graphics card driver, the system crashes (Screen becomes black). " This really comes down to user preference, since both the MSI R9 280 GAMING OC and GeForce GTX 760's will perform identically. I have MSI AMD R9 280 3GB DDR5 graphics card.