Any R9 280X owners here?

[Ghanja]

I have recently upgraded my system and now I am planning on getting a replacement for my 560 Ti. Actually I wanted to get myself a GTX 760 (Zotac or Gigabyte - both about 240 EUR) but now I saw I could also get a Sapphire R9 280X for about 244 EUR. I would be interested if anyone has got any experience with this card in DCS World.

[Rhinox]

R9-280X just became available, so I doubt someone here has it already (edit: R9-280X is basically just re-marketed HD-7970). But for that price (~250€ here) it is a very good deal. In most tests I have seen (hardwareluxx, pcgameshardware, computerbase, etc.) it clearly outperforms GTX760 (by as much as ~20%), and is actually on about the same performance-level as GTX770 (which costs much more). Moreover, R9-280X has 3GB GDDR5, while GTX770 only 2GB (those 770 with 4GB are even more expensive).

 

So if you face the decision "GTX760 or R9-280X" and want the best performance for ~250 bucks, I'd take R9-280X.

Edited October 24, 2013 by Rhinox

[SkateZilla]

R9-290X Will be $550, NewEgg and another site had 799-849 hidden in their HTML Code, But this is incorrect, they just slapped a random high price on it when they made the product ID.

 

R9-290X outperforms Titan in everything except Skyrim. (in Both FPS and Frame Latency).

 

I personally am waiting to see if 3rd Party 290X cards have better cooling.

 

 

$589 at TigerDirect:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8594941&Sku=

 

R9-290X (Hawaii XT), $550 Suggested MSRP for Reference Design

1GHz Hawaii XT GPU, 2816 GCN 2.0 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs, 176 TMUs, True Audio Enabled.

4GB of GDDR5 on a 512-Bit Bus @ 1250 MHz, Uses PCIe xDMA for CrossFireX

250W Peak, 8Pin/6Pin Power Connectors, Does Not Require Active Display Port for Eyefinity (Can use 2x DVI+1x HDMI)

Crossfire Compatibility with R9-290X, R9-290

 

 

 

R9-280X (7970GHz Edition Refresh), $300 Suggested MSRP for Reference Design

1 GHz Tahiti GPU, 2048 GCN Stream Processors, 32 ROPs, 128 TMUs, No TrueAudio

3 GB of GDDR5 on 384-Bit Bus @ 1500MHz x 4 (6 GHz)

250W Peak, 8Pin/6Pin Power Connectors

Crossfire Compatibility with R9-280X, R9-280, HD7970 GHz Ed., HD7970, HD7950, and HD7870 XT (Tahiti LE)

Edited October 24, 2013 by SkateZilla

[*Rage*]

R290x is a great card for those on HD 69xx/ GTX 5xx users running at 1600p

[159th_Viper]

I pre-ordered R9 290X with deposit earlier this month. Received the final order reference with purchase-price this morning here in the UK, took one look at the price and told them to get knotted.

 

Awaiting my refund and release of the new Nvidia cards.

 

Another thing to keep in mind is the release of the R9 290 next week will be cheaper than the X. To quote the supplier:

 

The R290 will launch next week on 30/31st and will of course be cheaper and perform very close too the R290X as it features the same memory configuration. So if you'd rather have one of these, ask for a refund and order an R9 290 on the website next week as we have 1000 in stock available for launch.

[SkateZilla]

I pre-ordered R9 290X with deposit earlier this month. Received the final order reference with purchase-price this morning here in the UK, took one look at the price and told them to get knotted.

 

Awaiting my refund and release of the new Nvidia cards.

 

Another thing to keep in mind is the release of the R9 290 next week will be cheaper than the X. To quote the supplier:

 

how much were they charging?

[159th_Viper]

Ranging from £450 to £500 excluding p&p.

[Axion]

Quickly skimming through different reviews it sounds like a very promising card on price / performance comparison wise. My only concern is that it apparently runs extremely hot (95 degrees) and noisy (>50 dB) under full load? Sounds reminiscent of the GTX 480.

 

Love to know how it performs within DCS.

[SkateZilla]

Quickly skimming through different reviews it sounds like a very promising card on price / performance comparison wise. My only concern is that it apparently runs extremely hot (95 degrees) and noisy (>50 dB) under full load? Sounds reminiscent of the GTX 480.

 

Love to know how it performs within DCS.

 

Wait for 3rd Party Cooling, or water cool the reference block.

 

The problem is the dust buster fan design, and their default fan profile never goes above 55% fan speed, instead it drops the GPU Clock.

[*Rage*]

More interested to see how Edge scales with Xfire/Sli.

[SkateZilla]

290/290x Xfire works better with Hi-Res Gaming.

[roob]

Bought 280X today. If I get it tomorrow and play this weekend I'll post my intial thoughts :)

[SkateZilla]

280X can XFire with 7970,7950 and 7870XT Cards

[Rhinox]

Slightly OT:

 

I checked some on-line shops here, and pre-release price (for which you can order it) of R9-290X is ~460-550€. Seems to me very fair. It is much less than highly overpriced Titan (~850-900€) and quite less than GTX780 (530-570€). Yet I think R9-290X will be faster than both...

 

Did not find price of R9-290 (non-X), but I think it will be somewhere around 350-400€, that is in the middle between R9-280X (~250€) and R9-290X.

 

NVidia will have to do something quickly!

[SkateZilla]

Titan and 780 / 780Ti will not see price drops due to their origins.

 

GK110 is A Pro Series GPU, nVidia had a HUGE overstock of these chips due to Pro GFX Boards not selling,

 

So they took their $3000 Pro Card, Removed the ECC VRAM From it, Disabled some stuff, and Modified the BIOS to get the Titan.

 

They are already selling them for a loss, but it's better than those chips sitting in a warehouse making no money.

[roob]

Card didn't work. Gonna have to send it back...

[Ghanja]

What was wrong and what's the rest of you system?

[roob]

System won't boot. Card starts and lights up green and all, but my monitor never receives any signal from the 280X. I have only tried the DVI-outputs because my monitor doesn't support DP/HDMI.

 

i5-2500K

P67A-GD65

Corsair AX760i

and some memory.

[-Rudel-]

n/m

Edited October 26, 2013 by -Rudel-

[jj_pt]

I got myself one of these these a couple of weeks ago. I was able to increase the internal DCS graphic settings and it runs fine so far, despite some multiplayer missions still having problems with very low FPS when looking in certain directions.

[Rhinox]

...NVidia will have to do something quickly!

Seems they have heard me, and price-war is on the way:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gtx-780-price-drop,24886.html

(and many other web-sites report the same)

 

GTX 780Ti: $699

GTX 780: $499 /was $649/, so now it is $50 less than R9-290X

GTX 770: $329 /was $399/, here R9-280X for $299 is still cheaper

 

Long live the competition! :-D

Edited October 30, 2013 by Rhinox

[SkateZilla]

Considering the R9-290X Beats the 780/780Ti, and Trades blows with the Titan, which isnt havinga Price Drop.

 

And you have the R9-290 To be unveiled yet.

[cichlidfan]

Considering the R9-290X Beats the 780/780Ti, and Trades blows with the Titan, which isnt havinga Price Drop.

 

Which is better in DCS though?

[SkateZilla]

DCS Currently Favors nVidia GPUs, when one goes by the posts here and other sites.

 

I however have no problem running max (water on low, dynamic weather off) across 3 Screens on a 7950 (provided that Im not flying through forrest fires and walls of smoke from destroyed objects).

 

Whether or not this changes with Edge, remains to be seen.

[Alireza.kh]

DCS Currently Favors nVidia GPUs, when one goes by the posts here and other sites.

 

I however have no problem running max (water on low, dynamic weather off) across 3 Screens on a 7950 (provided that Im not flying through forrest fires and walls of smoke from destroyed objects).

 

Whether or not this changes with Edge, remains to be seen.

 

may i know your full setting and fps on single monitor?