We would recommend a psu with at least 750 watts for the radeon r9 280x and a.
Sapphire r9 280x 3gb benchmark.
The smaller the overlap between the yellow and green bars the better the value for money.
Components that offer the best value for money have great performance yellow and a low price green.
I have sapphire r9 280x toxic edition.
The radeon r9 280x sapphire vapor x 3gb tri x oc edition requires 250 watts to run and the radeon hd 7970 ghz toxic 6gb edition requires 265 watts.
Factory overclocked and better performance than the standard 280x.
Not as widely available and cost upwards of 200 performance is more in line with the r9 290 reference card at times exceeding it.
Moving to 1920 x 1200 while we fall short of that 60 fps number the 59 fps number we get is.
This chart compares the amd radeon r9 280x with the most popular graphics cards over the last 30 days.
Looking above you can see at 1680 x 1060 that the sapphire r9 280x 3gb toxic offers a strong 69 fps.
The radeon r9 280x requires 250 watts to run but there is no entry for the radeon hd 7950 sapphire 3gb boost edition.