AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB Graphics Card Review

Overclocking

Overclocking the R9 270X was actually surprisingly fruitful. We managed to bump an additional 105MHz onto the core, which isn’t as high as I’d like but for a reference model was a good result. The additional 225MHz on the memory was also impressive – allowing us to get to 6.5GHz effective. In total our overclocks were 10% on the core and 16% on the memory.

Overall performance jumped from 8332 to 9008 in 3DMark 11’s performance test – that’s about an 8.2% boost in real 3D performance. An overclocked R9 270X was capable of taking on overclocked GTX 760s – an impressive feat given the R9 270X costs $199 and most GTX 760s cost $250 upwards.