HIS R9 270X IceQ X² Turbo Boost 2GB Graphics Card Review

Overclocking

Overclocking the HIS R9 270X IceQ X² Turbo Boost graphics card was a little on the disappointing side. While the memory overclocking was solid, thanks to the use of 6GHz Hynix memory chips, the GPU core overclocking was weak. Yet the card clocked higher than the reference design – which is good, though the actual performance from a higher clock than the reference design was lower – which is strange. P8960 is still better than the out of the box P8652 score, but it is hardly a huge jump. Overclocking didn’t really impress me at all on this graphics card, but I think that is probably more to do with the silicon lottery rather than the card itself.

• HIS R9 270X IceQ X² Turbo Boost graphics card – 1185MHz core and 1605MHz memory
• Powercolor R9 270X PCS+ graphics card – 1200MHz core and 1580MHz memory
• Gigabyte R9 270X WindForce OC graphics card – 1200MHz core and 1615MHz memory
• ASUS R9 270X Direct CU II TOP graphics card – 1250MHz core and 1575MHz memory
• AMD R9 270X Reference graphics card – 1155MHz core and 1625MHz memory