sapphire 11221-12-20G Sapphire VAPOR-X R9 280X Tri-X OC With Boost (UEFI) Graphics card Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 2 x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort lite retail

SAPPHIRE R9 280X Vapor-X model uses vapor-chamber cooling in the graphics cards, delivering highly efficient and quiet cooling. Factory overclocked to deliver increased performance over the standard model, the SAPPHIRE R9 280X Vapor-X model is a great choice for professional users as well as gamers.

HDMI with 3D
Support for Deep Color, 7.1 High Bitrate Audio, and 3D Stereoscopic, ensuring the highest quality Blu-ray and video experience possible from your PC.

DisplayPort 1.2
Doubling the effective bandwidth of previous DisplayPort implementations, DisplayPort 1.2 now includes support for Multi-Stream, allowing you to drive up to four separate monitors from a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector requires DP1.2 monitors or Multi-Stream compatible hub, Stereoscopic 3D monitor support and adds support for high quality, lossless, 7.1 channel audio formats.

Dual-Link DVI-D
Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI Digital Visual Interface, this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.

Dual-Link DVI-I
Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI Digital Visual Interface, this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.

Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.

Vapor-X Technology
SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking !

AMD Stream Technology
Accelerate the most demanding applications with AMD Stream technology and do more with your PC. AMD Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of compute power locked up in your graphics processer on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone.

AMD Avivo HD DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray Playback
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video DecoderUVD

AMD CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
Triple or Quadruple gaming power with AMD CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology.AMD CrossFireX technology supports up to four graphics cards to be used in a single system.

Black Diamond Choke & Full Solid Cap Design
Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

AMD HD3D Technology
Enjoy the most immersive experience possible with full support for High Definition Stereoscopic 3D, a technique that presents 2D images movies, games, photos in a format that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth when using compatible 3D displays / glasses / software.

28 nm GCN Graphic Core Next Architecture
The new 28nm GCN Architecture’s more efficient process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling a dramatic increase in processing power

PCI Express 3.0
PCI-Express 3.0 delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU GPU communication-up to 16GB/sec in each direction, maximizing the performance from your GPU when paired with the latest platforms.

AMD Eyefinity 2.0
The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations. Face it: the best just got better: The enhancements for AMD Radeon HD7000 series include: Stereo 3D-multi-display stereoscopic 3D support via DisplayPort 16K X 16K maximum display group resolution-output up to 268 megapixels per GPU.

SAPPHIRE Tri-X Cooling Technology
Sapphire exclusive Triple fan design pushes out the heat more efficiently than standard dual fan.

DirectX® 12
The tessellation performance on AMD Radeon R7/ R9 series is up to 2X faster than the previous generation, and DirectCompute performance is also faster to accelerate advanced post-processing, filtering, and anti-aliasing techniques. Direct X12 games has never looked this good.

OpenGL 4.3
OpenGL 4.3 improves the GPU efficiency by improving the shader process operation and capturing GPU tessellated geometry. The process of modifying an arbitrary subset of compress texture is also simplified. The memory management in handling shaders is more efficient as well.

Mantle
Properly enabled games will reach new heights of performance by speaking the language of Graphics Core Next architecture.

AMD Catalyst Control Center™
The AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual quality of your SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon™ based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC.

Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support
Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies. Requires a DVI to HDMI dongle on some models, an HD capable monitor and a Blu-ray drive

Anti-aliasing features
Supports advanced AA Anti-aliasing features to maximise your enjoyment of high definition gaming.

- Multi-sample anti-aliasing 2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing CFAA for superior quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Gamma correct
- Super AA AMD CrossFireX™configurations only
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering

TriXX Utility
TriXX helps users to get the optimum performance from compatible SAPPHIRE graphics cards in any application by allowing them to monitor, tune and save different settings of key parameters for the card.

Windows® 7 support
WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs Certified drivers and logos are available for all SAPPHIRE HD2000, HD3000, HD4000 and HD5000 series cards ensuring compatibility and reliability with Microsoft Windows 7.

AMD App Acceleration
AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL, DirectCompute or DirectX Video Acceleration DXVA.

AMD PowerPlay with ZeroCore Power Technology
AMD PowerPlay is a power management technology in response to the GPU loading, AMD PowerPlay automatically manages the power consumption.

AMD ZeroCore Power technology allows your AMD Radeon™ GPU to consume virtually no power when in idle state5. When used with AMD CrossFire™ technology, it shuts down additional GPUs when they’re not in use.

Cutting-edge Quad HD display support 4K Support
The display resolution is quadrupled to the resolution of 4KX2K 4096X2160 from the outputs of DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI.

AMD PowerTune technology with Boost
AMD PowerTune technology with Boost is a breakthrough technology that sets an entirely new direction for maximum performance at TDP. It allows the GPU to be designed with higher engine clock speeds which can be applied on the broad set of applications that have thermal headroom.
In HD 7900 series, AMD PowerTune technology enables intelligent power monitoring to enable higher clock speeds and better performance in your favorite games

Windows® 8/8.1 support
WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs Certified drivers and logos are available for SAPPHIRE cards ensuring compatibility and reliability with Microsoft Windows 8/8.1.

Dual BIOS Legacy and UEFI Support
This product supports both Legacy and UEFI BIOS. By factory default, the card itself is under Legacy mode.
By pressing the button with SAPPHIRE logo, UEFI mode will be easily enabled.

5000 Hours long life Capacitor

Feature list

Graphics processor family:	AMD
Graphics processor:	Radeon R9 280X
Maximum resolution:	4096 x 2160 pixels
CUDA:	N
Processor frequency:	1000 MHz
Processor boost clock speed:	1100 MHz
Stream processors:	2048
Discrete graphics adapter memory:	3072 GB
Graphics adapter memory type:	GDDR5-SDRAM
Memory bus:	384 bit
Memory clock speed:	6000 MHz
Interface type:	PCI Express 3.0
HDMI ports quantity:	1
DVI-D ports quantity:	1
DVI-I ports quantity:	1
DisplayPorts quantity:	1
HDMI version:	1.4a
DisplayPort version:	1.2
TV tuner integrated:	N
PhysX:	N
DirectX version:	12.0
OpenGL version:	4.3
Full HD:	Y
Dual Link DVI:	Y
HDCP:	Y
Cooling type:	Active
Colour of product:	Black, Turquoise
Windows operating systems supported:	Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Basic x64, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Professional x64, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Starter x64, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows 8, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Enterprise x64, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro x64, Windows 8 x64, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 x64
Cables included:	HDMI
Manual:	Y

Sapphire VAPOR-X R9 280X Tri-X OC With Boost (UEFI) Graphics card Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 2 x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort lite retail