14 DAY TRIAL // The other day, I reported that most major vendors of AMD graphics cards had already showcased their Radeon R9 and R7 graphics adapters. Now, I bring you Sapphire's line.
Above are the press renders of the Radeon R9 280X Toxic and R9 280X Vapor-X. They use the Dual-X and Vapor-X coolers, respectively.
Sapphire borrowed elements from its past graphics cards, but the newcomer will be undeniably better.
If you're still wondering where the R9 290X is, it won't be selling for another week yet. That one will stay as a reference card for a while, unlike these ones that have been customized by AMD OEMs.
All AMD Radeon R9 280X graphics cards will sell for around $299 / €299. They have 2,048 stream processors, GPU clocks of 1000 / 1050 MHz, memory clock of 1,500 MHz (3 GB GDDR5, 6 GHz effective) and 384-bit memory interfaces.