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to my unboxing and performance review of the Radeon
r9270x it's a $200 GPU meaning it's at
the top end of that best bang for the buck $100 to $200 price range and if
you're familiar with the 7870 GHz Edition this card is going to look
pretty familiar to you so it's clocked at 1.05 GHz Max on the core and that
relates to their new powertune technology so when they say Max clocks
the way powertune works is much like NVIDIA's GPU Boost 2.0 where it factors
in not only the clock speed the voltage
and the power limits of the card but also temperature so it's able to use all
four of those data points to get the most performance possible out of the
card at any given time when you're overclocking pretty much the best thing
to do is turn up the maximum clock speed turn up your available power limit and
then the card will pretty much do the rest for you you can't do much with the temperature limits because they ship at
their maximum recommended temperatures from AMD at this time now the way that
the fan works with respect to temperature is instead of ramping up and
ramping down quite sharply theyve made things much more gradual so it should be
a less noticeable change in sound meaning that the card will be less
obnoxious to the ear when you're opening up games or closing them next up is the
2 gig frame buffer this is the same as the 770 GHz Edition but unlike the older
card it is also available in a 4 gig configuration for a few more bucks this
might be relevant to you if you're gaming at higher resolutions than 1080P
or for future games however 2 gigs looks
like it's going to be pretty good for the time being and because this card is
positioned as a 1080p gaming monster so
maximum details 1080p um it's up to the individual whether that's useful for you
or not it has 180 W typical board power
meaning it needs two PCI Express six pin connectors in order to provide Power and
it has 1,280 stream processors so that's pretty
much it for the spec okay it supports direct x1.2 it supports openg o it
supports mantle so mantle is important it runs on any gcn architecture card
which this happens to be it's pretty similar to the last gen and pretty
similar to what's in the Xbox One PS4 and Wii U and mantle is a way for that
AMD can allow developers to program almost directly to the hardware instead
of going through an API such as DirectX
11 well mantle is an API but instead of going through one that is bloated and
slow and bottlenecks the performance of your system so mantle is going to be
launching on a couple of different titles Battlefield 4 will be the first
game with support for mantle and what it basically means is that the Game Dev has
to code in a completely different path and that sounds crazy that sounds like a
step backwards to the olden days but it's maybe not because a lot of the devs
especially if they're crossplatform devs are going to be doing the similar work
on the next gen consoles anyway so we could be looking at tangible performance
improvements for AMD cards on games running mantle and for end users it'll
probably be as simple as something like a drop down menu going from direct X to
opengl to mantle and just seeing a massive performance Improvement which is
very very cool now let's do an overall tour of the card here there's a large
80mm fan in a blower style that's going to exhaust air out the back of the card
we've also got a PCI Express 3.0 16x interface here at the bottom the two PCI
Express connectors that I showed you before on the back we find a plain PCB
with no sort of back plate or anything like that and right here ah yes we find
more technology two DVI ports HDMI and DisplayPort which might not look that
interesting but it is so DisplayPort Splitters are now a thing you can run
three monitors off of that single port and if you don't feel like using display
port at all and you want to run ifinity you you can use two DVI ports and an
HDMI port and no adapters with these
latest generation cards the maximum is 1080p 60 hzz or it might work at 1920 x
1260 HZ so you can't do you know 3D
surround or anything like that without implementing a DisplayPort monitor in
your setup but I still think that's a major step forward in terms of
compatibility and ease of setup for ifinity and that's not the only way that
multi-display uh implementation has been simplified some 4K displays these days
in fact a lot of them are going to require two cables and then they're
basically going to be two monitors in one and AMD's new implementation on
these cards is going to allow for automatic Arrangement okay so the
monitor is going to be able to communicate with the card and say look this is the one that's supposed to be on
the left this is the one that's supposed to be on the right and detection of these tile displays so that they're
completely transparent to the end user and you don't even know that there was a
configuration process that happened they're also launching their Raptor
gaming app which is more of a co-branding exercise and it allows you
to interact with your friends across platforms it allows you to launch
applications without closing down your game it allows you to gives you rewards
for playing games and finally it optimizes your game settings on your own
on its own without intervention so it finds other people playing similar games
to you on similar configs finds out what kind of performance numbers they're
getting and then allows you to select a slider anywhere from quality to
Performance depending how you want the game to run and boom it'll do up all the
details for you in such a way it'll run really well on your system this is to
compete with of course the GeForce experience from NVIDIA which is similar
except it doesn't Cloud Source the data from other Gamers zeroc core technology
is included which basically allows your operating system to power down the GPU
when it's not doing anything but true audio is not so that is the dedicated
programmable DSP that's on the 260x and the 290 Series so you will still be
using your CPU for audio calculations unless you either step up a whole lot or
step down a significant amount in terms of performance now speaking of
performance without further Ado I'm handing this video off to Slick to tell
you guys about the performance of the 270x compared to its competition the
charts presented before you are just a compilation of all the cards that I've
been running on these three games over the last little while now you'll notice
that the r9270x has a running buddy from the
NVIDIA side but something to notice in this little battle as well is that the
AMD card is about $50 cheaper at launch
although this is subject to change obviously one thing that I do notice
with this price point is that people are really searching for their best bang for
the buck so this is definitely going to be a card to watch because it is right
in that price point now if you are someone looking for an AMD card this
might be the best bank for your buck card out there we'll have to just wait
and see if you like the video like the video If you dislike the video dislike
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