ASUS R9270-DC2-2GD5 Pro Reviews

AMD's R9 270 sits right in the sweet-spot segment for gamers—below $200. This makes the card affordable to almost everyone, while offering good performance at resolutions up to and including full HD. The ASUS R9 270 DC II OC comes overclocked out of the box, which gives it a performance boost. We unfortunately didn't receive a R9 270 reference board from AMD, so we don't have the reference design performance numbers to compare to. The card does very well overall, though. Averaged over all our benchmarks, the card only ends up 5% slower than the R9 270X, 5% faster than the GTX 660 and 5% faster than the HD 7870. It would have been nice to see an overclock on memory, too; the memory chips are specified to run at 1500 MHz, so an overlock would have been easy.