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AMD Radeon R9 270
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon R9 270 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released November, 2013
AMD Radeon R9 270
- 900 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!GPU overclocking potential is quite good, even with the ASUS card being overclocked out of the box already.
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Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850
- 860 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2012)This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw for the former and 150 W for the latter.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R9 270 vs 7850 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.3 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 153.6 GB/s | More than 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 74 | vs | 35 | More than 2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 2,368 GFLOPS | vs | 1,761.3 GFLOPS | Around 35% better floating-point performance | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 74 GTexel/s | vs | 55 GTexel/s | Around 35% higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly more shading units | 1,280 | vs | 1,024 | 256 more shading units | |||
| Slightly more texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 64 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
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| Significantly better T-Rex score | 4.75 frames/s | vs | -1 frames/s | More than 575% better T-Rex score | |||
| Slightly lower TDP | 130W | vs | 150W | Around 15% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R9 270 vs HD 7850
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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