Radeon R9 270 vs HD 7850

Released November, 2013

AMD Radeon R9 270

900 MHz
2 GB GDDR5

6.5 Out of 10

The card is also overclocked out of the box, to 975 MHz, which is a 50 MHz overclock; the reference AMD Radeon R9 270 Non-X uses a 925 MHz clock.

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older Released March, 2012

AMD Radeon HD 7850

860 MHz
2 GB GDDR5

6.3 Out of 10

This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw for the former and 150 W for the latter.

by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2012)

	Gaming
	Real world tests using the latest 3D games
Radeon R9 270 N/A Radeon HD 7850 N/A
crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 6 more

	Benchmarks
	Synthetic tests to measure overall performance
Radeon R9 270 7.2 Radeon HD 7850 6.9
Passmark

	Compute Performance
	General computing tests executed on the GPU
Radeon R9 270 6.0 Radeon HD 7850 5.7
Passmark Direct Compute

	Noise and Power
	How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load
Radeon R9 270 5.6 Radeon HD 7850 5.6
TDP

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Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon R9 270

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Higher effective memory clock speed

5,600 MHz

4,800 MHz

More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed

Slightly higher clock speed

900 MHz

860 MHz

Around 5% higher clock speed

Slightly better floating-point performance

2,304 GFLOPS

1,761 GFLOPS

More than 30% better floating-point performance

Slightly higher texture rate

72 GTexel/s

55 GTexel/s

More than 30% higher texture rate

Higher memory clock speed

1,400 MHz

1,200 MHz

More than 15% higher memory clock speed

Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon HD 7850

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Slightly lower TDP

130W

150W

Around 15% lower TDP

Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance

Radeon R9 270

4,184

Radeon HD 7850

3,734

videocardbenchmark.net

Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute

Radeon R9 270

2,139

Radeon HD 7850

1,757

videocardbenchmark.net

Radeon R9 270		vs	HD 7850

	9.2 read review		9.1 read review	GPU overclocking potential is quite good, even with the ASUS card being overclocked out of the box already. Radeon R9 270