Reviewers Liked
- Oh so quiet, Runs very cool, Solid 1080p performance, Now bundled with Battlefield 4
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Pricing may be a concern
Sapphire Radeon R9 270 Dual-X Boost OC 2GB GDDR5 PCIe
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If the name of this video card seems overly long, it's worth pointing out that Sapphire makes no less than 18 R9 200 series cards, and seven of those are 270 variants, including the 270X models. This particular design is the base R9 270, which has been...
By micromart.co.uk onThis week AMD launch their new R9 270 graphics card – set to replace the HD7850 at the lower end of the enthusiast gaming market. Thankfully today we haven’t been forced to review a reference AMD solution and instead we can focus on some higher...
By Kitguru.net onWe're not particularly fond of AMD's reference Radeon R9 270-series cooling solution. Fortunately, most of the company's board partners have their own heat sinks and fans. We take 10 cards and measure their clock rates, thermals, and acoustics. Because...
By Tom's Hardware UK onof the Sapphire Dual-X R9 270AMD ended up doing a re-branding of some older GPU's which is not uncommon for either GPU manufacture to do. Most of the time this is done as there where some minor changes the the GPU's and it allows them to realign how the...
By Modders-Inc onAMD's R9 270 graphics card is arguably the single most important GPU release of this year from AMD. It offers a never before seen level of performance at its $179 price point, more or less totally beating Nvidia's GTX 660 – especially when overclocking...
By eTeknix onLooking at the Sapphire version of the R9 270 first we have a card which shares the same feel as the higher end models they offer. Similar packaging, similar bundle... similar cooler. Yes it would be nice to have a metal shroud but there are no...
By HardwareHeaven onThe introduction of the AMD Radeon R9 270 is a wholly expected move designed to fill a small gap in the mainstream graphics card market. This GPU is a slower-clocked version of the R9 270X - to the tune of 10 per cent in our benchmarks - and can quite...
By HEXUS.net onIn case you hadn't had your fill of new graphics cards, today AMD launched yet another. Early October the Radeon R7 260X, R9 270X and R9 280X were introduced, later that month the flagship Radeon R9 290X arrived and last week the related Radeon R9 290...
By uk.hardware.info onAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been keeping us extremely busy launching new graphics cards and this week is no different. AMD announced the Radeon R9 270 graphics card this morning at the $179.99 price point. This is the sixth video card that AMD has...
By Legit Reviews onDie Sapphire R9 270 Dual-X 2GB GDDR5 ist eine leicht übertaktete Mittelklasse-Grafikkarte mit effektivem, aber recht lautem Kühlsystem. Ihre Leistung im Test reicht für Full-HD-Gaming mit geringfügig reduzierten Grafikdetails. Im Test ermitteln wir...
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