** HD 7950 RETURNS: SAPPHIRE R9 280 DUAL-X NOW IN STOCK!! **

[Gibbo]

Hi there


In short this is a re-flashed 7950, a great value gaming card and one which will no doubt be a favourite amongst miners:-


Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £209.99 inc VAT

With 3GB of the latest GDDR5 memory and 1792 stream processors, and support for DirectX 11.2, the architecture is built to play the very latest games with perfectly smooth action even at higher resolutions such as 2560 x 1440. In fact its Ultra HD graphics processor can feed even the latest 4K displays with the HDMI 1.4a interface. The R9 280 family represents a breakthrough in costerformance.


Specification:-
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 500-700
- PCI-E 3.0 Ready: Delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe GEN2 for faster GPU- CPU
- Hugely overclockable
- Core Clock Speed: 850MHz
- Boost Clock Speed: 940MHz
- Shader Architecture: GCN
- Stream Processors: 1792
- Texture Units: 128
- ROPS / Z-Stencil: 32 / 128
- Frame Buffer / Memory: 3GB GDDR5
- Memory Width / Speed: 384 bit / 5000MHz
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin
- Display Outputs: 2x DVI + 1x DP + 1x HDMI
- Power: 250W TDP
- 2yr Warranty


Only £209.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

 

[Something Else]

Not a bad price either

 

[cwgk91]

£75 cheaper than equivalent x variant (when not on offer) is v good

 

[ademcg]

£75 cheaper than equivalent x variant (when not on offer) is v good

But the "X" variant is a 7970

 

[jesus2nd]

Will I be able to crossfire it along side my current 7950?

 

[Zenduri]

urgh so tempted now, still tempted to grab the x variant on offer for £30 more

 

[cwgk91]

You can x-fire a 280x with a 7970 and as this is a rebranded 7950 I would think so

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Thank you AMD, there goes the 2nd hand market for 7950s!

 

[Jumper118]

I always wanted a 7950 but they disappeared because of miners. Ill take them all now though!

 

[cwgk91]

Will be interesting to see if there are any actual improvements or if it literally is just a rebrand

 

[ubersonic]

£75 cheaper than equivalent x variant (when not on offer) is v good

I find it a tad difficult to get excited about a card from 2012 that was discontinued in 2013 coming back in 2014 with about a 25% price increase, but meh

Thank you AMD, there goes the 2nd hand market for 7950s!

It's not like their going to return to normal, nobody is going to sell a used 7950 for less than a R270 in this market.

Will be interesting to see if there are any actual improvements or if it literally is just a rebrand

Gibbo said it's just a 7950 with a different BIOS. It does appear to have a slightly different cooler shroud to any of Sapphires 7950's but that may just be aesthetic as the fans look the same. It's either 15MHz faster or 10MHz slower depending which model you compare it to.

 

[kadath]

I find it a tad difficult to get excited about a card from 2012 that was discontinued in 2013 coming back in 2014 with about a 25% price increase, but meh




It's not like their going to return to normal, nobody is going to sell a used 7950 for less than a R270 in this market.




Gibbo said it's just a 7950 with a different BIOS. It does appear to have a slightly different cooler shroud to any of Sapphires 7950's but that may just be aesthetic as the fans look the same. It's either 15MHz faster or 10MHz slower depending which model you compare it to.

All of this really. 7950s really were a bargain in their latter days.

 

[Bluntwrapped]

I'm not all that familiar with AMD bios flashing but would this mean most if not all 7950's could be flashed with the R9 280 bios?

 

[Devrij]

I'm not all that familiar with AMD bios flashing but would this mean most if not all 7950's could be flashed with the R9 280 bios?

It shouldn't as that would make them 7970s really.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Thank you AMD, there goes the 2nd hand market for 7950s!

The market and these prices are still artificially high. These are old cards been sold for more than they were when they were last in stock. Nothing exciting here for gamer's its all about the mining.

 

[Gibbo]

The market and these prices are still artificially high. These are old cards been sold for more than they were when they were last in stock. Nothing exciting here for gamer's its all about the mining.

Actually that's not quite right.

The last 7950 / 7970 prices were stock clearance deals from the manufacturers to clear stocks at massively reduced prices.

The 280 and 280X pricing is lower than what the normal cost of 7950 and 7970 but is higher than what the stock clearing deals were priced at.

So unless AMD move the prices there is no artificial price ramping on the 280 and the 280X is now only about £10-£20 more than it should be.