AMD Radeon R9 280X Video Card Review w/ ASUS, XFX and MSI

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3DMark 2013

3Dmark Fire Strike Benchmark Results – For high performance gaming PCs

Use Fire Strike to test the performance of dedicated gaming PCs, or use the Fire Strike Extreme preset for high-end systems with multiple GPUs. Fire Strike uses a multi-threaded DirectX 11 engine to test DirectX 11 hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike

Fire Strike Benchmark Results:

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Benchmark Results: The 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark has the XFX Radeon R9 280X scoring 7165, the MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming scoring 7551 and the ASUS Radeon R9 280X Top scoring 7666. There is a 500 point difference between the cards due to the clock speeds being so different.

Fire Strike Extreme:

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Benchmark Results: The same performance gaps are shown with the extreme setting.