Powercolor, Club3D and the VTX3D have all launched their versions of the new Radeon R9 280 graphics card. Their models are based on the AMD reference Design and also the clock speeds are the same.


The AMD Radeon R9 280 has been officially announced and AMD's AIB partners are working hard to get their HD 7950 Boost rebrands to the market.

Although they share the same characteristics and all three come with a slightly overclocked Tahiti Pro chip set to work at 855MHz base and 960MHz Boost GPU clocks. All three also come with 3GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at same 5000MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface. As far as the power consumption is concerned, all three have 15W TDP in idle and 210W under full load. The connectivity includes two mini DisplayPort, DVI-D and HDMI outputs.

The price is set at US $279 for all AMD AIB partners and all three have a different cooling sytem. The Club3D R9 280 RoyalKing uses CoolStream cooler which is quite similar to the one found on the VTX3D R9 280 while Powercolor sticks to its own TurboDuo cooler. Of course, we still have to see them in a review in order to check out how similar they actually are.






Source: Le Comptoir du Hardware.