Sapphire has matched Gigabyte with an 1100MHz core overclock, while they left the memory at 6000MHz.
Sapphire’s Tri-X cooling solution is what gives the company the confidence to push its R9 280X so far.
With densely packed fins in both heatsinks there’s plenty of surface area for heat dissipation.

The Tri-X cooling solution also employs Sapphire’s Vapor-X technology.
Vapor Chamber Technology is based on the same principles as heatpipe technology.
The recirculation process is controlled by a wick system.
As impressive as the Vapor-X Tri-X cooler is, there is one drawback.