PowerColor Radeon R9 280X TurboDuo OC Review
Published by Christian Ney on 09.01.14Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| With the Radeon R9 280X TurboDuo OC, PowerColor is
offering a R9 280X based on a Radeon HD 7970 reference PCB paired up
with their own new cooling solution. Overall, the TurboDuo OC did good
in our testing, performance is the way we expected it to be, cooling performance
is
on a good level, the card is very silent and we like the design of the
cooler. As always we would have liked to see the manufacturer overclock the memory and it would have been nice to get a higher factory overclocking on the GPU. Further improvements could have also been made regarding the price and power consumption under load. |
- Performance
- Cooling performance - Design - Noise levels - Bundle |
- Memory Clock
- Price |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| PowerColor's new TurboDuo cooler did a very good job on the Radeon R9 280X. The cooling performance was on a good level and most of all the noise levels were very good. The card is inaudible in idle and very silent under load. | - Cooling performance
- Noise levels |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Overall the 3D performance is good but as said
previously, we would like PowerColor to push the factory clock further
in order to improve performance of its card and stand out from the
masses because the slight overclock of 30 MHz does only bring roughtly 1
% performance gain. Idle power consumption of the PowerColor card is very good, we measured 46 Watts on the wall, 2 to 3 Watts less than other tested Radeon R9 280X. Unfortunately the card doesn't shine green under load with a rather high result. With the PowerColor card our system draws 347 Watts under FurMark while it draws between 335 and 321 Watts with other R9 280X or even a reference Radeon HD 7970. |
- Performance
- idle power consumption |
- Performance/Price
- Power consumption under load |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| It looks like PowerColor focussed effort on the
cooler and didn't pay too much attention to the rest for. In
the end it results in a silent and well cooled graphics card but with
high load power consumption and shy factory overclocking. The price has also been overlooked, the TurboDuo OC costs 30 Euros more than the cheapest R9 280X and you can find faster and better cooled cards with custom PCB for less money. |
- Gaming | - Price | |
| We gave the Radeon R9 280X TurboDuo OC from PowerColor 3.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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