Reviews - Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Overclocked Edition

[HEXUS]

Gigabyte goes for value and performance. See if it succeeds.

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[pvee]

price is very reasonable for this monster gpu card. i don't mind the noise but could've been better if the memory is overclocked with this type of cooling system. I'm still satisfied using my gtx 680 at the mean time because it's still a very good gpu card that can still compete with these new gpu cards on the market.

[raven1001]

The GTX 770 looks like an awful buy next to the 280x cards price wise. I wonder if Nvidia will react and reduce prices?

[AndyM95]

The GTX 770 looks like an awful buy next to the 280x cards price wise. I wonder if Nvidia will react and reduce prices?

The 680 was bad price wise compared with the 7970 but the 680 still vastly outsold it, some people will buy Nvidia and only Nvidia, not even giving AMD a look in. They will only lower prices if they are losing enough sales.

[Jimbo75]

The value of these cards is crazy.

[raven1001]

Who says it vastly out sold it? initially maybe when it came out cheaper but the 7970 prices dropped and I'm sure AMD made a killing with throwing top games in with their cards.

[Butuz]

Lazy Giga - they still have not addressed the very poor VRM cooling and weak whiny fans. If you did a custom fan profile so that the gigabyte created the same noise as the Asus card, it would be the hottest card on test by a long way.

[VijaySathyan]

The GTX 770 looks like an awful buy next to the 280x cards price wise. I wonder if Nvidia will react and reduce prices?

The 680 was bad price wise compared with the 7970 but the 680 still vastly outsold it, some people will buy Nvidia and only Nvidia, not even giving AMD a look in. They will only lower prices if they are losing enough sales.

Oh this time Nvidia will lose sales, if they dont reduce their price fast.

[flufflogic]

Let's face it, everyone's just waiting for the 290X already. A price dropped card is nice, but let's be honest.

[cheesyboy]

She's no looker, that's for sure. A cooler redesign is overdue

[addz17]

Quality, performance is fine, but can't stand the blue PCB and increasingly dated cooler.

[TheMaterialGamer]

The GTX 770 looks like an awful buy next to the 280x cards price wise. I wonder if Nvidia will react and reduce prices?

We can only hope...

[TheMaterialGamer]

She's no looker, that's for sure. A cooler redesign is overdue

This. I get the 280x's are just refreshes but they could've at least redesigned the coolers they're starting to get a little old.

[davemaster000]

Since I am a Nvidia fan, this new card series by AMD changed my point of view. I never was interesting in buying an AMD card, but this one features better performance than GTX770 and is much cheaper and by it means more people can afford it. I think AMD did a good job with these graphic cards.