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R9 270

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Release date: Q4 2013.

Average Bench: 24.4% (167th of 689)

Based on 48,522 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 3.34%. 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) 33.6fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 39.9fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 48,522 samples)
Rank 16724.4%
Min Avg Max
28.4 Lighting 31.3 33.5
30.2 Reflection 33.6 36
36.4 Parallax 39.9 43.4
25.3% 34.9 fps
Min Avg Max
26.8 MRender 28.3 30.1
27 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%
Sapphire(174B E271)
CLim: 1070 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.11.2
27.3% Poor
Lighting 34.5
Reflection 34.6
Parallax 43
28% 37.4 fps
MRender 31.2
Gravity 33.3
Splatting 26.1
27% 30.2 fps
Sapphire(174B E271)
CLim: 945 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.10.35.02
24.7% Poor
Lighting 31.6
Reflection 34.5
Parallax 40.1
26% 35.4 fps
MRender 28.9
Gravity 29.5
Splatting 23.3
24% 27.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB
CLim: 925 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.Q1.2
23.5% Poor
Lighting 30.1
Reflection 34
Parallax 37.2
24% 33.8 fps
MRender 27
Gravity 28.1
Splatting 22
22% 25.7 fps
AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB
CLim: 925 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.5.2
21.1% Poor
Lighting 24.6
Reflection 31.1
Parallax 38.3
20% 31.3 fps
MRender 27.6
Gravity 27.9
Splatting 22.1
22% 25.9 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 57,006,848 GPUs tested.

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $155 @ launch in Nov '13)
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Sapphire(174B E271) 22% 25% ± 1%
Sapphire R9 270 2GB Dual-X Boost OC
11220-00-20G
AmazonUS $2004 years
Asus(1043 048D) 18% 25% ± 1%
ASUS R9 270 2GB Direct CU II OC
R9270-DC2OC-2GD5
AMD(1002 0B04) 13% 23% ± 1%
MSI(1462 3050) 11% 24% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 226C) 9% 25% ± 1%
Gigabyte R9 270 2GB OC
GV-R927OC-2GD
AmazonUS $1402 years
XFX(1682 9270) 6% 24% ± 1%
PowerColor(148C 2337) 5% 25% ± 1%
Asus(1043 86A4) 4% 24% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 90D2) 4% 23% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2337) 4% 24% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0493) 2% 24% ± 1%
Device(1B0A 90F3) 1% 23% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 201C) 1% 24% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E270) 1% 26% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8651) 0% 24% ± 0%
MSI(1462 3051) 0% 24% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 2015) 0% 22% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0B00) 0% 18% ± 0%
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Typical R9 270 Builds (Compare 3,120 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 22%
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Desktop
Desktop 78%
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Workstation
Workstation 19%
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System: Dell XPS 8700

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel  $185Bench 71%, 255,027 samples1,688x
Core i7-4770Intel  $85Bench 70%, 176,321 samples1,054x
Core i5-4460Intel  $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples134x
GPU
R9 270AMD  $140Bench 24%, 48,522 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples110x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples98x
MX500 1TBCrucial  $68Bench 106%, 202,785 samples93x
RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples220x
HMT451U6BFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 2,366 samples120x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples88x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 54% - Above average Total price: $465

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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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9,020

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

CAN-User
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4,614

Terrible

9 months ago.

I has and still is serving me well :)

PAK-User
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2,882

Good

6 months 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

MDG-User
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340

Good

2 years ago.

AMD has a better quality than Nvidea

RavenBailiff
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316

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

2 months 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

18 months ago.

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

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