Radeon R9 270X 

In idle it's pretty quiet, but not as quiet as it should be, given what we've seen from other cards in its price and performance range.

When looking at pricing, we immediately see that the card is significantly more expensive than HD 7870 and HD 7850, even with the performance gains taken into account.

For $250, you can get a GTX 760, which is faster, and the HD 7950 with similar performance is currently available for $205.

With a price of $210, the card is just $10 more expensive than the cheapest R9 270X on the market.

In terms of pricing the card is very competitive, it is available online for $200, which means there is no price increase at all for higher clocks and cooler.

The higher MSRP could also give board partners more room to release their custom designs without any large price increases.

The 28 nm "Pitcairn" silicon on which the Radeon R9 270X is based features 1,280 stream processors based on the Graphics CoreNext micro-architecture, 80 texture memory units (TMUs), 32 raster operations units (ROPs), and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory.

It would have been nice of ASUS to also include a memory overclock to help with performance, and while the memory chips are not amazing overclockers, they could certainly handle a few MHz extra.

You can also see a memory pad here; it cools some of the memory chips (not all).

This configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw.

The R9 270X reference design was actually significantly better than the HD 7950 in that test, yet I still think overall gaming power draw is reasonable for such a product as the HAWK.

Like on all AMD cards, power consumption in multi-monitor and Blu-ray is a bit higher than competing products from NVIDIA, but the numbers are not as bad as on AMD's high-end products.

The game has been tuned to run well on most computer systems, which lets as many players as possible experience the game.

The game is a typical, linear first-person shooter, but offers a talent tree, fast paced action, and one-on-one duels with special game mechanics.

After the tremendous success of Far Cry, the German game studio Crytek released their shooter Crysis in 2007.