The AMD Radeon R9 270X & R9 270 Review: Feat. Asus & HIS
by Ryan Smith on November 13, 2013 12:01 AM ESTCrysis: Warhead
Up next is our legacy title for 2013/2014, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 5 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down. Crysis was intended to be future-looking as far as performance and visual quality goes, and it has clearly achieved that. We’ve only finally reached the point where single-GPU cards have come out that can hit 60fps at 1920 with 4xAA, never mind 2560 and beyond.
For Crysis: Warhead, AMD is once again in control. The 270X gets dangerously close to the GTX 760, and the 270 handily beats the GTX 660 by over 10%. The 270 series cards also end up being very close to each other, with the gap between them shrinking to under 10% to all of 3.1fps.
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Waveblade - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
It's like different people work on different products!Roland00Address - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
A commandment of any cell phone reviews, thou shall not rush battery life tests.Tetracycloide - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
Be thou particularly careful testing battery life when thine available anecdotes vary wildly. Be thou definitive.slayerxj - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
I may not read the article very carefully, and I keep wondering that why 280X has a star behind it.Gigaplex - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
I'm getting a little tired of this TDP nonsense. Two cards with the same TDP from the same product family of the same manufacturer that clearly consume different amounts of power - the TDP numbers are now meaningless. And don't get me started on Intels SDP.yannigr - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
If both are under 150W, then where is the problem? Maybe R9 270 consumes close to 130W-140W and not 150W, giving the necessary room to AMD's partners to oc the chip without passing the 150W limit.dylan522p - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
OCed 270 is 270xslapdashbr - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link
Under 150W means it only needs one 6-pin power connector (like the 7850 or 660 which it replaces/competes with) and in general is much more power-efficient. The 270 (non-x) is aimed more at builders with power limits or old systems that can't support a dual-6-pin GPU, or perhaps computational tasks where performance per watt is more important than performance per card. The 270x is full-powered but less efficient and is better suited for gamers and tweakers. I wouldn't get a 270 to save $20 unless the lower power limit was important, in which case it's actually a good buy, as it should still edge out a gtx 660 while staying under 150W total power.dylan522p - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
SDP at least makes sense.maximumGPU - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
quick comment on the DCUII coolers from asus. I too have been very impressed with them. my goal was silent yet powerful computing, and the DCUII cooler on my GTX670 plays that part admirably.