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| 7.3 Out of 10 |  |
by techPowerUp!GPU overclocking potential is quite good, even with the ASUS card being overclocked out of the box already.
by techPowerUp!With a retail price of $185, the card is just $5 more expensive than the AMD reference design.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon R9 270 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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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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Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon R9 270
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection 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
Battlefield 4
Crysis 3
Reviews Word on the street for the Radeon R9 270
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Performance
by techPowerUp!Unfortunately we didn't receive a R9 270 reference board from AMD, so we don't have the reference design performance numbers to compare to.
by techPowerUp!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.
by techPowerUp!Overclocking on our sample worked well and gained another 10% real-life performance.
Memory
by techPowerUp!The card isn't exactly new, it's basically an R9 270X (with the same amount of shaders), same memory, but lower clock speeds.
by techPowerUp!Memory doesn't overclock so well, because of the Elpida memory chips used.
by techPowerUp!Memory isn't overclocked at all, and remains at the default of 1400 MHz.
Overclocking
by techPowerUp!The ASUS R9 270 DC II OC comes overclocked out of the box, which gives it a performance boost.
by techPowerUp!It would have been nice to see an overclock on memory, too, the memory chips are specified to 1500 MHz, so this would be easy.Non-gaming power consumption of the card can not impress.
by techPowerUp!The ASUS card we are reviewing today is overclocked though, which negates any power consumption reductions that would have been gained from the lower clock speeds.
Applications
by techPowerUp!We see quite high levels in single monitor idle, multi-monitor idle and Blu-ray playback, issues that are common to many AMD cards.
by techPowerUp!In multi-monitor/Blu-ray AMD cards have notoriously bad power consumption, NVIDIA provides much better results here.
Price
by techPowerUp!It is faster and cheaper than GTX 660, having about the same price/performance as HD 7870, but it's faster.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Curacao |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 900 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 925 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 1,280 |
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| Texture mapping units | 80 |
| Render output processors | 32 |
| Compute units | 20 |
| Pixel rate | 29.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 74 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 2,368 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz |
| Memory bus | 256 bit |
| Memory | 2,048 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 150W |
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