WEEKEND BARGAIN! (normally $209, strictly while stocks last, limit 2 per customer) The ASUS Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II features an engine clock of 975MHz, 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 memory, PCI-E 3.0, DirectCU II SSU thermal design, 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort and more. Backed by a 3 year ASUS warranty.
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What would be better. Two of these ($340),or a single R9280x (about $360)?
Two 270s if the game supports crossfire well and you already have a suitable motherboard and PSU.
Single 280X for all the reasons mentioned here.
TL;DR less frustration, less costly, less potential issues, more value-for-money.
if the game supports crossfire well
That's a big if and an unlikely one in today's gaming industry.
Always go best single card. Micro stuttering is horrible
How does this rate against a HD4870?
Night and day
Probably 2-3x faster
I had one of those cards. Poster is right. This will smash your 4870.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270X-vs-Radeon-HD-4870
4870 is 1374 Passmarks
R9 270 is 4222 Passmarks
R9 270X is 4519
R9 280X is 5135
Always use actual game benchmarks. Passmark is a horrible benchmark for GPUs.
while we at it, how does this rate against HD6950?
Not much of an upgrade
Shipping 16/17 bucks eat into the savings.. hmmmm
This better and quieter than a 5970?
Core 725 vs 975
Mem 1000 vs 1400
512 bit vs 256 bit
Seems it is lower clocked and uses more power But HD5970 has dual GPU
So not a huge upgrade for me.
Your 5970 is 2647 Passmarks
R9 270 is 4222 Passmarks
So it's about 60% faster than what you have now in those benchmarks.
Your 5970 is coming up to 5 years old this year, which is positively archaic in computer terms.
You are getting yourself confused by the clock speeds. Remember, a 3.0GHz Haswell i5 CPU from 2014 is considerably faster than a 3.0GHz Pentium D from 2006
I don't know what passmarks are but for comparing GPUs you should be using actual game benchmarks. 5970 should be faster than this card but it depends on crossfire support though it should be quieter and use a lot less power.
Nobody uses Passmarks for GPU's. Isn't it usually 3dMark?
Anyway, according to the performance hiearchy chart on Toms, its
Radeon:
HD 5970, 7870 LE (XT), 7950, 280
Nvidia
GTX 670, 760
So yeah, despite the 5970 being a dual GPU, its only slightly better than the 7870 Tahiti.. You'd have to get the R9 280x or above to see an improvement.
For a $23/$12 saving, I'd rather just pick one up from MSY.
MSY = ASUS R9 270 2GB, $209 + $00 Pickup + Peace-of-mind local warranty = $209
MSY = Gigabyte R9 270 2GB, $198 + $00 Pickup + Peace-of-mind local warranty = $198
PCCG = ASUS R9 270 2GB, $169 + $17 Delivery + Hassle of interstate warranty = $186
If it was 'free shipping' then sure.
I agree here. Not to mention that you gotta wait for it, it may get damaged, you cost you more to send it back, and all that effort to keep all these things in your mind.
Though id normally agree, MSY warranty gives about as little piece of mind as you can get from a physical store.
Sad question: I still have an athlon X2 250 @3ghz with 4gb of ram and a GT220 haha, I was considering upgrading my card to a gtx750 or 750ti, but was worried how much improvement that'd give me considering the older MB and CPU…Given my research I think i might go ahead, and if it doesn't improve much then I'll probly upgrade the rest of it sooner rather than later and would still be happy keeping the 750ti in that new build for a while.
However this would be a better option than a 750ti, right? Only problem THEN is, the 750/750ti are low power draws, and this would draw a lot more, perhaps too much for my PSU. I have an asustek atx450D. I tried googling that and could only find results in other languages haha. On one part of the sticker it says '450 watt peak' and another says total 400 watts. There're two 12volt rails, one states 17A and one states 15A (the 12v rail is apparently pertinent to whether or not it'll cope?)
So I guess my main question is, would my PSU run this card in my current setup? If so, would I be massively bottlenecked by my cpu/MB? (MB is an asustek M4N68t-m which has an old n-force chipset. I know I'd be better off doing a new build entirely, but I didn't want to do that until I had more money and could build something that wouldn't pale at the idea of the oculus rift requirements when it launches next year…
Sorry for so much text. Any advice or opinions would be fantastic :))
In a nutshell
| GPU | TDP Design and PSU requirement |
|---|---|
| GF 750 | 55 watt - recommended 400 watt psu |
| GF 750 Ti Edition | 60 watt - recommended 400 watt psu |
| R9 270 | 150 watt - recommended 450 watt psu |
You have an OEM power supply which seems to be the PSU that comes with ASUS-made Vento ATX cases..
As for this particular Radeon GPU:
The power supply should have a maximum combined +12 Volt continuous current rating of 28 Amps or greater and have at least one 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connectors.
Technically your PSU should do the job fine since you have 29 amps on the 12v rails, but your PSU is likely a cheap generic rebranded with ASUS logos. I would look at upgrading it.
Thanks so much. Yeah I figured it'd be almost or JUST/maybe out of spec for it, and I don't think I have any PCIE supplementary connector, so yep. Dunno how you figured out the PSU-Vento cases connection or found that link, that's awesome thanks! That looks about right. Yeah I just don't know if I wanna bother replacing the PSU right now as well just to get a new GPU - either I'll go with a card I CAN use with this psu, or make new build entirely, now. I could only afford around 800 tops atm though and i'm worried about doing one for that and then next year or so, either because of the oculus, or 4k, or whatever, being disappointed. i need SOMETHING to replace my gt220, it's useless except for indie games, and seems to be dying to boot, so I guess I will stick with my plan of getting a 750ti or something, then upgrading the rest down the line and/or then getting a REALLY decent card to go along with that. Thanks again for your help :)
You'd also need a faster CPU to use this card to its fullest. Time for a major upgrade me thinks.
are 2 of these faster than 2 gtx480?
These are the non-X models. The 270X is about 20% faster than GTX 480.
For $340 dollars, you'd be getting an incredibly miniscule improvement over your GTX 480s.
Not really worth even contemplating.
The only upside would be that the R9 270 doesn't double as a blast furnace/wind turbine unlike the GTX 480.
2GB VRAM is also fast approaching obsoletion in the gaming industry. The GTX 480 was top of the tree back in the day; for a guaranteed step up from GTX 480 SLI you'd be looking at an R9 290 (non-X) at a minimum.
Hi guys, can someone advise if this is worth an upgrade from a GTX560? Also, would this consume approx the same amount of power? Thanks for your help.
Your answer is essentially what I said to phillay above; that it would be a miniscule improvement at best.
An R9 270X (GPU Math: R9 270X = (~) old 7950 > GTX 660 > GTX 560) would be a worthwhile improvement if you're on a budget.
Another R9 270 deal, damn, still waiting for a GTX 760 to be nicely discounted.
OMG why is this not my pay week…