The Sapphire Toxic 280x can be bios modified to lower the voltage.
how?VBE7. I can confirm it does work on the 280x toxic as I also did it yesterday. I'm starting to wonder if most new cards can now be modified. I made this thread before I knew about doing so.
http://rumorscity.com/2013/12/09/how-to-modify-video-bios-to-undervolt-gpu-in-linux/
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/vbe7-vbios-editor-for-radeon-hd-7000-series-cards.189089/
no dl link