<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 13px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With&nbsp;AMD&rsquo;s Radeon R9 280X&nbsp;being based on the company&rsquo;s now venerable and battle-tested Tahiti GPU, AMD&rsquo;s partners have wasted no time in releasing fully customized products for AMD&rsquo;s new lineup. Whether it&rsquo;s reusing a tried and true design from the 7970 and 7970 GHz Edtion, or coming out with a new design entirely, everyone is doing something to make their card unique. In fact you won&rsquo;t even find a reference card for the 280X launch; everything is custom from day one.</span></span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 13px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Of course it&rsquo;s not just boards and coolers that can be adjusted. With nearly 2 years knowledge on the performance characteristics and yield curves of the Tahiti GPU, partners aren&rsquo;t wasting any time in releasing aggressively clocked designs in their first salvo. We&rsquo;ve already seen Asus make their first move with their&nbsp;R9 280X DirectCU II TOP, and they won&rsquo;t be alone. But of all the designs being released in the next week for the 280X, none that we&rsquo;re aware of are quite as aggressive as what Sapphire will be going for with their 280X Toxic.</span></span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 13px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246);"><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/7406/the-sapphire-r9-280x-toxic-review" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more...</span></a></p>