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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.
Features Key features of the Radeon R9 270
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard 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.
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
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.
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
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.
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
Reviews Word on the street for the Radeon R9 270
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Performance
by techPowerUp!Overclocking on our sample worked well and gained another 10% real-life performance.
by techPowerUp!It is faster and cheaper than GTX 660, having about the same price/performance as HD 7870, but it's faster.
by techPowerUp!The ASUS R9 270 DC II OC comes overclocked out of the box, which gives it a performance boost.
Power
by techPowerUp!During gaming, power consumption is good, making the card a very power efficient choice on the current market.
by techPowerUp!The card requires a 6-pin PCI-Express power connector.
by techPowerUp!During gaming we see almost exactly the same power consumption as the AMD R9 270X reference design, which was kinda expected, because R9 270 Non-X is just a lower clocked R9 270X.
Memory
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.
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.
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.
Overclocking
by techPowerUp!Please note that every single sample overclocks differently which is why our results here can only serve as a guideline for what you can expect from your card.
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.
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 | 28.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 72 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 2,304 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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Competitors
 | AMD Radeon HD 7790
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 | AMD Radeon R7 260X
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7850
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
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 | Generic GeForce GTX 660 Ti
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7870
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 | Sapphire Radeon R9 270 OC Battlefield 4
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 | GIGABYTE Radeon R9 270 WindForce 2X OC
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