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R9 270

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Release date: Q4 2013.

Average Bench: 24.4% (159th of 681)

Based on 48,064 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6811 Models: AMD Radeon R9 200, ASUS R9 270, AMD Radeon R9 270, AMD Radeon (TM) R9 200, AMD Radeon(TM) R9 270
Poor: 23%Average: 24.4% Great: 26%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD R9 270 averaged 75.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 31.3fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 29fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD R9 270 is just 3.18%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD R9 270 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 34fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 39.9fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 48,064 samples)
Rank 15924.4%
Min Avg Max
28.8 Lighting 31.3 33.5
31 Reflection 34 36.1
36.1 Parallax 39.9 44.2
25.3% 35.1 fps
Min Avg Max
26.9 MRender 28.4 30.1
26.9 Gravity 29 31
21.7 Splatting 23 24.3
23.3% 26.8 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB
CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.1.4
27.5% Poor
Lighting 34.8
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 45.4
28% 39.6 fps
MRender 32.3
Gravity 33.3
Splatting 26.1
27% 30.6 fps
AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB
CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.2.1
25.7% Poor
Lighting 35.2
Reflection 33
Parallax 37.9
28% 35.4 fps
MRender 27.7
Gravity 27.9
Splatting 22.3
22% 26 fps
PwrHis(1787 2337) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
24.2% Poor
Lighting 29.9
Reflection 34.8
Parallax 41.5
24% 35.4 fps
MRender 29.2
Gravity 30.2
Splatting 23.8
24% 27.7 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,409,449 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 48,064 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $155 @ launch in Nov '13)
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Sapphire(174B E271) 19% 25% ± 1%
Sapphire R9 270 2GB Dual-X Boost OC
11220-00-20G
AmazonUS $2004 years
Asus(1043 048D) 19% 25% ± 1%
ASUS R9 270 2GB Direct CU II OC
R9270-DC2OC-2GD5
AMD(1002 0B04) 13% 24% ± 1%
MSI(1462 3050) 12% 25% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 226C) 8% 25% ± 1%
Gigabyte R9 270 2GB OC
GV-R927OC-2GD
AmazonUS $14020 months
XFX(1682 9270) 7% 24% ± 1%
Asus(1043 86A4) 5% 24% ± 1%
PowerColor(148C 2337) 4% 25% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 90D2) 4% 23% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2337) 3% 24% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 201C) 2% 24% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0493) 1% 24% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 90F3) 1% 23% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E270) 0% 26% ± 1%
MSI(1462 3051) 0% 24% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 200B) 0% 24% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2015) 0% 21% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 2015) 0% 22% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0B00) 0% 18% ± 0%
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Typical R9 270 Builds (Compare 10,412 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 24%
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Desktop
Desktop 82%
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Workstation
Workstation 21%
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System: Dell XPS 8700

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel  $195Bench 77%, 260,758 samples5,431x
Core i7-4770Intel  $146Bench 75%, 165,873 samples3,672x
Core i5-4460Intel  $125Bench 70%, 251,998 samples534x
GPU
R9 270AMD  $140Bench 24%, 48,064 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 112%, 572,494 samples382x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 770,272 samples375x
MX500 1TBCrucial  $94Bench 107%, 179,024 samples216x
RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,398 samples726x
HMT451U6BFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 2,310 samples421x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,131 samples357x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 56% - Above average Total price: $475

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 Comments

GPUPro
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Official site www.amd.com/...

Added 7 years ago.
USA-User
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Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

5 days ago.

CAN-User
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4,490

Terrible

4 months ago.

I has and still is serving me well :)

PAK-User
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2,774

Good

1 month ago.

way better as per proce to performance and when over clocked it is on another level one of the best graphic cards out there for budget gamers hands down a legend

gvrax
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372

Terrible

4 years ago.

low perfomance for that price

MDG-User
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324

Good

21 months ago.

AMD has a better quality than Nvidea

RavenBailiff
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318

Average

3 years ago.

Nice value GPU

mark121m
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14

Good

3 years ago.

Picked up this card for 34Dollars - 500rand not bad for a low spec budget gamer build

LyGhT
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6

Very good

5 years ago.

This Card is very good for gaming, with a little tweak you can even get it faster than the R9 270x as shown in my Userbenchmark http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/2772284

jabo05
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Good

13 months ago.

Its a OK budget card for this time but dont expect good performance in aaa titles

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