Help with a graphic card

[SnowAkechi]

Hello~ I've used Tomshardware before and liked it so I figured I'd come back and ask this question. I built a computer on Cyberpowerpc recently for the Independence Day sale, or well I suppose build is incorrect. They had an AMD PC on sale for $500 off; which I looked at and purchased. However...it has an AMD R9 280 3GB GDDR5 card, and I keep trying to find information on that but can only find information on the R9 280x, did I make a mistake buying this card? The full specs of the PC are as follows;

AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core processor
GIGABYTE 970A-DS3P AMD 970 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 4 Classic, On/Off Charge, GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI motherboard
8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance) ram
AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD) Graphics card
600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready power supply

Would love to hear your thoughts, also would like to know if I made a huge mistake buying this since it's using all of my money + some of my parents.

The games I'd use it for mostly are Tera: Rising, SC2 HoTS, Vindictus, Warframe, Minecraft, Ghost Recon, Diablo. Thanks guys/gals.

 

[Kari]

280 is just slightly crippled 280x (less shaders and lower clocks), they used to be called hd7950 and 7970, and of the two 7950 had better price/performance ratio. So you havent been scammed or anything, it is just the way AMD names their cards.

280 in TPU database
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2405/radeon-r9-280.html
and 280x
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2398/radeon-r9-280x.html


edit and the whole system looks like solid (upper) mid-tier rig, there's no single weak link in it that would bottleneck it.

 

[SnowAkechi]

280 is just slightly crippled 280x (less shaders and lower clocks), they used to be called hd7950 and 7970, and of the two 7950 had better price/performance ratio. So you havent been scammed or anything, it is just the way AMD names their cards.

280 in TPU database
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2405/radeon-r9-280.html
and 280x
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2398/radeon-r9-280x.html

Phew, I was so afraid of that, so it should run those games fine? Would it run games like BF4 on a high setting or would it be somewhat crippled to a medium or high with certain things turned off? If you know. >_< I've been really limited on my current rig, and by limited I mean I can barely play browser games now, I have a AMD Radeon HD 6700 series, and when I try any of the games I listed I drop to roughly 10-15 frames, it's infuriating to use, so I'm really hoping this new one will run wonderfully.

 

[Kari]

well it is certainly going to run much better than your old rig
High should be doable in BF4 I quess, dont play it myself thou

 

[SnowAkechi]

well it is certainly going to run much better than your old rig
High should be doable in BF4 I quess, dont play it myself thou

That's true, thanks a lot for clearing that up for me, I was quite...worried that I royally messed up lol.

 

[Kari]

nah you're good to go
enjoy your new rig