AMD Radeon R9 270: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
NVIDIA equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 270 sales 13 November 2013 at a recommended price of $179. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 179.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. 1 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 16.53 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of Radeon R9 270's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
1.42
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GPU code name
Curacao
Market segment
Desktop
Design
reference
Release date
13 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP)
$179
Technical specs
Radeon R9 270's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 270's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 270's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
210 mm
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 270: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 270. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
HDMI
+
DisplayPort support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 270. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
CrossFire
+
FreeSync
+
HD3D
+
LiquidVR
+
TressFX
+
TrueAudio
+
UVD
+
DDMA audio
+
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 270, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
Shader Model
5.1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
+
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 270. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
16.53
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
5930
Unigine Heaven 4.0
711
Passmark
4212
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 270. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
293 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
16 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon R9 270 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 270 performance compared to its nearest competitors.
100 %
Radeon R9 270NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 270 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which is faster by 1% and higher by 11 positions in our rating.