ASUS R9 280X DCU II Review + BenchMarks ~ Saad Reviews (Reviews + Benchmarks)

There are some really interesting graphics cards have come into the market and the battle between Nvidia and AMD has reached at its peak again, this is really a good thing for the people who are willing to buy a new GPU for themselves. The main plus point of this dominance war is that consumer’s cost reduce to about 10% to 15% because of both brands wanted to get more sales and dominate the score cards. So far Nvidia has the edge over AMD from about 5 months but now AMD has launched some GPUs as well to create room in market for them. Today we are going to review an AMD graphics card customized by ASUS from AMD’s R9 series which is ASUS R9 280X DCU II.

The ASUS R9 280X DCU II is well build as the design is pretty much similar to the other DCU II cards of ASUS. The ASUS has improved the efficiency of the cooling system by installing their custom heat sink as well as two fans. The design is really good with 1x DVI-I and 1x DVI-D ports. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II also has Display Port and HDMI port as well and ASUS R9 280X DCU II supports 4 Displays easily (tested). The ASUS R9 280X DC II requires 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin PCIe power connector with TDP of 250Watts.

GPU Comparison
Graphics Cards	Nvidia GTX 780 Ti	Nvidia GTX 780	AMD R9 290X	ASUS R9 280X DCU II
BasetClock	876 Mhz	863 Mhz	1000 Mhz	970 Mhz
BoostClock	928 Mhz	900 Mhz	1145 Mhz	1070 Mhz
Memory	3 GB_GDDR5	3 GB_GDDR5	4 GB_GDDR5	3 GB_GDDR5
Frequency Effective	7 Ghz	6 Ghz	5 Ghz	6.25 Ghz
Stream Processors	2880	2304	2816	2048
Tesselation Units	15	12	n/a	n/a
Process	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Interface	384 Bit	384 Bit	512 Bit	384 Bit
Bandwidth	336 GB/s	288 GB/s	331 GB/s	288 GB/s
TDP	250W	250W	300W	250W

The ASUS is really good when it comes to redesign and overclock the cards of Nvidia or AMD and those bad boys perform really better than the reference cards. The Direct CU II lineup of ASUS graphics cards has its own images in mind of enthusiasts as they done very well and keeps the temperature low as well as better overclocking and customized controlling utility softwares as well. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II is really a good card. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II is optimized for low noise and high temperature, overclocking is very good and memory frequency is about 6400 Mhz which is really good. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II can boost upto 1070 Mhz which is terrific with 3GB_GDDR5 memory. The 4 way CrossFire support is available as well. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II can also work with AMD R9 280X card as well. Let see what this thing has…..

The ASUS R9 280X DCU II is really a good with pretty affordable price as well. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II remains cool as well. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II performs more than expected. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II performs more than enough. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II has better overclocking ability as well. The ASUS R9 280X DCU II supports Direct X 11.2 as well. This card is really well powered to replace the AMD HD 7970. The final decision is you and it is your decision of buying it or not but whatever you decision will be, its definitely worth buying.