AMD Radeon R7 260X, R9 270X, and R9 280X Tested

Name: Tested and Reviewed: AMD Radeon R7 260X, Radeon R9 270X, and Radeon R9 280X
Brand: Tested

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, October 08, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

The Radeon R9 280X performed relatively well in this benchmark, outpacing the GeForce GTX 770 overall. The R9 270X also performed well and clearly outperformed the GeForce GTX 660. The extra frame buffer memory also helped the Radeon R7 270X here and allowed it to outshine the Radeon HD 7790 and GeForce GTX 60 Ti Boost at the higher resolution.

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Save for the Radeon HD 7790's big spike in frame time at the beginning of the run, there's not much to report on in these FCAT results.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, R9, R7, 270X, 280X, 260X

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com