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Radeon R9 280

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Effective Speed -422%Effective 3D Speed -422%Average Score -494%Lighting -468%, Reflection -489%, MRender -712%, Gravity -305%Overclocked Score -494%Lighting -401%, Reflection -599%, MRender -695%, Gravity -282%Value & Sentiment User Rating -94%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves -291%Parallax -287%, Splatting -426%, Parallax -282%, Splatting -454%, Age -3%

Average Bench: 28.3% (175^th of 713)

Based on 15 user benchmarks. Device: 1002 679A Model: AMD Radeon R9 280

Poor: 13%Average: 28.3% Great: 34%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD Radeon R9 280 averaged 71.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 36.5fps

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 41.7fps

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Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Radeon R9 280 is 20.9%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Radeon R9 280 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 33.9fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 53.8fps

Average Bench

(Based on 15 samples)

Rank 17528.3%

Min	Avg	Max
0	Lighting 36.5	45.1
19	Reflection 33.9	38.4
47.9	Parallax 53.8	60.1
29.7% 41.4 fps

Min	Avg	Max
27.4	MRender 30.7	33.5
37.3	Gravity 41.7	46.9
21.3	Splatting 24.1	27
25.6% 32.2 fps

User Benchmarks

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The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 2 years ago.Radeon R9 280

Sapphire(174B A003) 3GB

CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 21.10.2

32.3% Below average

Lighting 42.9

Reflection 35.7

Parallax 56.7

35% 45.1 fps

MRender 32.3

Gravity 44.3

Splatting 25.4

27% 34 fps

MEX-User, 2 years ago.Radeon R9 280

Gigabyte(1458 254C) 3GB

CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 21.10.2

31.1% Below average

Lighting 42.6

Reflection 19

Parallax 54

35% 38.5 fps

MRender 29.2

Gravity 39.6

Splatting 22.2

24% 30.3 fps

MEX-User, 2 years ago.Radeon R9 280

Gigabyte(1458 254C) 3GB

CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 21.10.2

28.8% Poor

Lighting 38.2

Reflection 33

Parallax 50.3

31% 40.5 fps

MRender 29.1

Gravity 39.7

Splatting 22.7

24% 30.5 fps

USA-User, 2 years ago.Radeon R9 280

Sapphire(174B A003) 3GB

CLim: 940 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 21.12.1

12.9% Very poor

Lighting 7.9

Reflection 31.5

Parallax 53

6% 30.8 fps

MRender 30.4

Gravity 41.6

Splatting 23.8

25% 31.9 fps

USA-User, 2 years ago.Radeon R9 280

PowerColor(148C 3000) 3GB

CLim: 960 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 21.12.1

8.82% Terrible

Lighting 0

Reflection 34.7

Parallax 53.8

0% 29.5 fps

MRender 31

Gravity 42.5

Splatting 24.3

26% 32.6 fps

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 68,746,192 GPUs tested

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Sapphire(174B A003)	27%	26% ± 9%
Asus(1043 047E)	13%	32% ± 0%
AMD(1002 3000)	13%	29% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 254C)	13%	30% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 229A)	13%	34% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 3000)	7%	30% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 3000)	7%	32% ± 0%
PowerColor(148C 3000)	7%	9% ± 0%

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Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	2,102x
Core i7-2600Intel $173Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,630x
Core i5-3470Intel $69Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	966x

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Radeon R9 280AMDBench 28%, 15 samples	1x

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A400 240GBKingston $25Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	850x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples	460x
A400 480GBKingston $35Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	442x

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2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	526x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	384x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	308x

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