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| 6.5 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
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 6 more | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Passmark | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| Passmark Direct Compute | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| TDP | |
| 6.5 | GPUBoss Score |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon R9 270
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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.
Power
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.
by techPowerUp!It's good to see that ASUS left some manual OC potential for power users.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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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