Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X OC and R9 290 Vapor-X OC review

Grid 2 is the sequel to the racing video game Race Driver: Grid. It was developed and published by Codemasters. The game includes numerous real world locations such as Paris, numerous United States locations, and many more, and also includes motor vehicles spanning four decades. In addition, it includes a new handling system that developer Codemasters has dubbed ‘TrueFeel’, which aims to hit a sweet spot between realism and accessibility.

We test at the maximum image quality settings, which are different for both AMD and Nvidia cards. The Nvidia hardware is tested at 16xQCSAA and the AMD hardware is tested at 8f16x EQAA.

The results below therefore are NOT directly comparable. We wanted to show performance from both AMD and NVIDIA solutions in GRID 2 when maximising the image quality settings.

The Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X OC delivers similar performance to the Nvidia GTX Titan Black when both drivers are configured to the maximum image quality settings. The Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X OC manages to maintain frame rates in excess of 25 at all times.

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