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Release date ≈ Q4 2021.

Average Bench: 26.6% (179th of 714)

Based on 21 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6810 Model: AMD Radeon R9 280X
Poor: 26%Average: 26.6% Great: 29%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD Radeon R9 280X averaged 73.3% 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) 34.4fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 25.4fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Radeon R9 280X is just 3.06%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD Radeon R9 280X performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 37.2fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 44.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 21 samples)
Rank 17926.6%
Min Avg Max
17.4 Lighting 34.4 37.7
19.6 Reflection 37.2 40.7
23.1 Parallax 44.1 48.7
28% 38.6 fps
Min Avg Max
16.6 MRender 31.1 34.1
17 Gravity 32.7 35.6
13.4 Splatting 25.4 27.7
23.9% 29.7 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
PowerColor(148C 2336) 2GB
CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1425 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 22.2.1
27.9% Poor
Lighting 35.8
Reflection 39.6
Parallax 47.4
29% 40.9 fps
MRender 33.2
Gravity 34.7
Splatting 27.2
26% 31.7 fps
Sapphire(174B E270) 2GB
CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.Q4
27.6% Poor
Lighting 36
Reflection 38.5
Parallax 45.6
29% 40 fps
MRender 31.2
Gravity 33.4
Splatting 26
24% 30.2 fps
PowerColor(148C 2336) 2GB
CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 22.2.2
27.4% Poor
Lighting 35.1
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 46.7
29% 40.1 fps
MRender 32.6
Gravity 34.3
Splatting 26.7
25% 31.2 fps
PowerColor(148C 2336) 2GB
CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 22.2.2
27.3% Poor
Lighting 35
Reflection 38.7
Parallax 46.7
28% 40.1 fps
MRender 32.4
Gravity 34.2
Splatting 26.7
25% 31.1 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Sapphire(174B E271) 43% 25% ± 4%
PowerColor(148C 2336) 19% 28% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E270) 10% 28% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0464) 5% 28% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E272) 5% 29% ± 0%
Device(1545 9270) 5% 27% ± 0%
XFX(1682 9275) 5% 27% ± 0%
MSI(1462 3030) 5% 27% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 2272) 5% 28% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 20%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 67%
Battle cruiser
Workstation
Workstation 16%
Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 (MS-7693) - $88

CPU
FX-8350AMD  $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples99x
FX-6300AMD  $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples82x
FX-8320AMD  $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples47x
GPU
Radeon R9 280XAMDBench 27%, 21 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples11x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston  $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples9x
RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples46x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples39x
12GBUnknownBench 35%, 85,415 samples16x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 65% - Good Total price: $246

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