You know the R9 280 is just a renamed 7950. AMD had a great GPU and were trying to get a little more mileage out of it. What are your clocks on it? I know for a fact you can get at least 1150ish on the core and 1500 on the memory. I used to run 3 x 7950's. I sold one and put the other two in my son's computer. He's got a pretty solid little gaming machine made out of my old spare parts. I love my 970's, but I'm actually pretty pissed off about the 3.5GB memory situation. In games like dying light with everything maxxed out, it will get to around 3560mb and it will start to stutter some. I recently finished the game, however it definitely affects the cards. In areas with video memory maxxed, I would get around 50-110 fps, in areas with only around 2GB used, I'd get around 120-200+fps. I joined the lawsuit the other day. I'm hoping for free upgrades to 980's or something. :devil:
Anyways, great scores bud. Enjoy that card, it's still pretty solid.