Friday, September 27th 2013
XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation Pictured
Although Radeon R9 280X has a lot in common with Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, AMD's AIB partners are expected to come up with entirely new board designs. A case in point is the XFX Double Dissipation card, pictured below. While we don't know if XFX is recycling PCB designs over from the HD 7970 GHz Edition, the cooler certainly looks new, with its tall and chunky aluminium fin heatsink that's fed by copper heat-pipes, and a pair of 100 mm fans. Its box speaks of an "unlocked voltage" feature.
Based on the 28 nm "Tahiti XTL" silicon, Radeon R9 280X features 2,048 GCN stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 3 GB of memory. The GPU is expected to be clocked a notch above 1.00 GHz on XFX' card, and the memory around 6.40 GHz. Slated for October 3rd, the card is expected to be priced anywhere between $299 and $329.
Source:
VideoCardz
Based on the 28 nm "Tahiti XTL" silicon, Radeon R9 280X features 2,048 GCN stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 3 GB of memory. The GPU is expected to be clocked a notch above 1.00 GHz on XFX' card, and the memory around 6.40 GHz. Slated for October 3rd, the card is expected to be priced anywhere between $299 and $329.
55 Comments on XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation Pictured
I may go for 2 of these cards, they do look and sound impressive.:)
For the price, well I do agree, let's bring GPU prices to earth please.
Read carefully before you post abbrasive replies.
I wouldn't be so hyped up on console ports to the PC personally. We will see what this generation brings, but most people just straight dislike port's as they tend to not look as good as something 'made' for the PC.
That's gotta be the most awesome looking video card I've ever seen... Too bad XFX is one of the brands that are very hard to get a hold of in my country... and that it's XFX...
Either way, reviews and customer feedback will be the dealmaker...
Why would i need to RMA a perfectly good card Just for the sake of being able to dust it off a little better?
Waste of time and money to ship it there and back
It does sound like they learned from the 7k range issue lets hope so as they always treated very well. And for what we can see it does look likee they put much more effert in the cooler well except those fans.. But being in the US it's a none issue just unscrew shroud and fans and put my own on lol.
the thermal paste they use on their GPUs isnt very good quality either, I wanted to remove the coolers off one of my 6970s because 80'c+ under load is too hot IMO even though its within the cards safe operating temps. So they asked me to RMA it.... to which of course i said no.
"If you register any of the specified products noted above online within 30 days of purchase, your limited warranty will be EXTENDED for the duration of your life. Registration within 30 days of the date of purchase is a condition precedent to receiving the lifetime warranty."
xfxforce.com/en-us/Help/Support/WarrantyInformation.aspx
You should know that as you wrote a post on this article.
www.techpowerup.com/159346/xfx-discontinues-double-lifetime-warranty-with-new-radeon-graphics-cards.html
The limited hardware warranty for selected Graphics Cards may only be transferred to one owner after the original owner. The following Graphics Cards are eligible: ALL XFX Radeon HD 6000, HD 5000, HD 4000 Series Graphics Cards.
Today I'd buy an HIS... over XFX. :cool:
If I remember w1zz's review of an EVGA card with ACX cooler correctly, he was quite unimpressed by that one as well.
From what I gathered TwinFrozr/Vapor-X/DirectCU still hold the crown.
I hear you about MSI's TwinFrozr though and I couldnt agree more.
1400MHz those are no stock titans...
They tend to blow VRM gaskets at 1200-1300MHz...
Either you are plain lucky or are running some very trixy stuff.
That is zombie mod frequency.
- Product Differentiation
- Cost Savings
XFX apparently prioritizes the latter, and it must be because of that that they generally have among the least expensive cards in the U.S. market. If you want to run the card at stock speeds, I see nothing wrong with XFX's reduced price coolers.