Sapphire R9 280X Vapor X Review

For our overclocking tests today we used the latest version of MSI Afterburner, which is based around Rivatuner.


There wasn't very much headroom on our sample – around 70mhz on the core above the TURBO Sapphire setting. This translated into a 9% overclock. We tried overclocking with other software packages and various voltage settings, but this was our stable limit.

We used software to analyse memory artifacting, and this started just after 1,578mhz. If we owned this board I would leave the memory speeds running as Sapphire set it up in the OC BIOS, just to include a little margin for stability.

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