In Game Benchmarks
Synthetic benchmarks are great and all, but the reason we all want a fast video card isn’t to see who’s card is faster in benchmarks. We get them to play games. I ran the Sapphire R9 280X through our in game benchmark suite to see how it would perform in a variety of games to give you a better idea of your in game experience. In all of our games the settings are turned all the way up including AA in most cases and running at 1920x1080. Out of the 11 games tested, nine of the games had an average FPS of over 60 and in most of those cases the average was considerably higher. That means the R9 280X Toxic isn’t going to give you any issues in any of those games. Of the two that came in below 60, they were both still in the 50’s. That is an impressive number considering the settings that each game in running at. Even the two games running below 60 FPS should still run very smoothly. Because we haven’t tested an R9 290X to date, this actually makes the Sapphire R9 280X Toxic the fastest AMD card we have tested. You can see this in Hitman: Absolution, a game that favors AMD cards, where the Sapphire card sits at the top of our results!