ASUS R9 270X Direct CU II TOP 2GB Review

Overclocking

Overclocking the ASUS Radeon R9 270X Direct CU II TOP gave us the best results of all the three R9 270X graphics cards we have tested so far with 1250MHz on the core and 1575MHz on the memory. Our reference model managed 1150MHz/1625MHz and our Gigabyte WindForce OC model managed 1200MHz/1615MHz. While the memory wasn’t as good as the other two we tested, probably due to different memory ICs (Elpida vs Hynix or Samsung) the GPU core was much better and the GPU core makes by far the biggest difference to performance.

The results show that the ASUS card was the best performer of the bunch as it managed to get around 250 more 3DMark 11 Performance points than the Gigabyte model overclocked and 350 more points than the reference model overclocked. Interestingly the ASUS R9 270X Direct CU II TOP graphics card is a serious contender to an overclocked GTX 760 because it overclocks so well.  The result of 9334 is around 8.5% better than the out-of-the-box performance of the card.