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welcome back to take a city this is the dark coming back to you guys today with an AMD graphics card review this is the AMD r9 270 now this is from a brand called Kudo Tallchief I think and they're a JD M brand that means they're Japanese domestic market brand so you won't find them anywhere else in the world now when I first unbox this thing I was a little bit kind of surprised I mean it came boxed really light there was actually like no accessories included in the box it was just pretty much a graphics card and a CD driver and that was it picking up the card itself it kind of felt a little bit lightweight I mean I thought the cooler could have definitely you know definitely after pick me up this brand I can see why it's cheap I mean it was the cheapest r9 270 I can find now I can definitely see why people prefer to go with gigabyte or Zeus models over this particular brand because the coolers are just heavier they feel better built and not to say I mean this thing didn't feel too bad build it doesn't rattle it doesn't shake it feels pretty solid but it does have that feeling of a little bit of a cheap feeling to it so that's something I didn't like about this particular vendor however let's move on now we'll move on so I've done a heap of benchmarking and of all and I'm also going to be splitting this video into two so I'm gonna be doing some mantle benchmarks on this card comparing this card against the DirectX 11 against mantle and seeing the performance differences but however this video here is just the review of the r9 270 and I'm gonna be comparing this against the GTX 780 I know it's not a fair comparison but I'll just give you some reference points anyway and also one more thing before we jump on to the benchmarks is that the r9 270 and the r9 270x there are not many differences they're essentially the same graphics card just the r9 270 is cheaper and it's clocked lower than the 99 to 70 X now an important thing that I noticed when I was overclocking this was actually capped in the BIOS to 1.05 gigahertz or 1050 megahertz so it had a cap in it it didn't have any voltage unlocked controls so I couldn't find any voltage unlocking controls in there and yeah that was I guess that's the main different so if you want to get the maximum potential at its card you have to flash the bios so anyway let's move on with the benchmarks now so for gaming benchmarks I just decided to quickly test to graphically intensive games they are battlefield 4 and Crysis 3 now both of these games are generally optimized for AMD graphics cards as well so I tested the reference speeds here and we're just gonna look at the average because the average on battlefield for single-player was sixty five point eight four and then the average when I overclocked it was seventy two point eight eight now that was actually pretty impressive that as you can see there the overclock pretty much scaled and what I had the overclocked I'll put the overclock and the reference clocks in the description below but essentially the overclock was about a hundred megahertz over the reference overclocked reference clocks so the overclock scaled really well and you're gonna see this throughout this whole look at these at these scores the reference 780 lightning I've got them confused so Indy 780 lightning reference was one hundred and forty two point six and when I overclocked it in battlefield 3 it's got one hundred and fifty three point two now for Crysis 3 when we move over to Crysis 3 we had on ultra one times SMA enabled at 1080p we had twenty six point five two and also we had thirty on when we overclocked it so again we can see that the overclock on this card scaled really well it was actually good I really liked if you're gonna get an A nine to seventy then definitely be overclocking this thing as much as high as it can go now when we looked at the Crysis 3 for the Nvidia reference we had sixty point two four and then we had sixty seven point two so again the GTX 780 was scaling as well and was a bit of a beast and you probably like why did you show this well I'm just showing you guys this is the other card I have to compare it to so you guys can get an idea of value for money and this card the r9 270 definitely does stack up as a very excellent value for money card now keep in mind that cross is real so I mean on ultra this thing is just a beast so the fact that the online 270 can do 30 FPS is actually really impressive so that was actually good if you scale these settings down to medium or high you'll still have a really good experience and around 60fps now I'm not gonna really test 1440p because I think you should have a better graphics card if you want to game at 1440p I'd say something like at least an r9 280x so let's move on now to UniGene valley because we've got a few different scores here we've got the power consumption now when I tested this I'm also going to quickly say under idle there wasn't much of a difference between this and the GTX 780 they both idle at around 110 watts on my overclocked for 670 K of 4.6 gigs and it's also overclocked the rams overclocked to 2,000 megahertz for these particular tests now we have here I'll mount to so many reference it was under load it was drawing 326 watts this is total consumption you got to remember this is total power consumption of my whole rig under load when I overclocked it it went up to 341 watts this is under UniGene valley extreme HD so there was about a 15 watt difference in power consumption which actually wasn't I mean that 15 watts is damn worth it so if you're a gamer you should definitely again be overclocking this graphics card an extra 15 watts for like an extra 10 percent performance was really impressive same with the GTX 780 although the GTX 780 just started to actually chew a lot more power I mean a good shooter an extra 50 watts over the reference speeds which was actually pretty surprising but I mean again that was a good extra almost 10% increase as well so this has got kind of fair value in total power consumption of the rig when I'm gaming in graphically intensive games so definitely with the uh nine to seven you definitely do want to overclock it and get the max FPS you can out of this card because wont be usually it might be using that much power let's move on now to UniGene Valley the scores okay so this is obviously this benchmark is known to be Nvidia favored benchmark so don't be too worried but I just giving you an idea mainly of the scores of the overclocked settings here so essentially we had UniGene valley extreme HD it's called a 1313 with average FPS of 31.4 and then when I overcooked it scored an average FPS of 34.2 so that was actually really impressive this the again the overclock scaled pretty much like in a straight linear line which was actually really good and it scored 1430 as well so as you can see here that the overclock on this thing was nice and smooth something to note about about the overclock those I could only max it out at ten a hundred ten fifty megahertz so it just wouldn't go over that I think it's biased locked at that so when we move over the 780 to the GTX 780 is obviously a beast of a card I mean obviously a commands a beast price as well but when we saw the average here it's called sixty six point six so there's the devil's address right there when we move over to overclock that scored seventy three point eight this is on extreme HD 1080p and the scores with two thousand seven hundred eighty nine and three thousand eighty seven respectively so it did really well the 780 but these scores here I'm going to be adding in the also gonna be adding in the 750 Ti if I get to purchase it in the near future so I'm gonna be keeping these benchmark scores here okay so moving on now to the 3d mark scores I will just show you guys these score the slides directly ignore that system infos too old I'm just I've have a version that's a few months old and I couldn't be bothered updating a bit we have either grabbed his score seven thousand five hundred and seventy and this is with the CPU clocked at four point six gigs the rams also clocked at two thousand as well 2000 megahertz so the physics core there represents that it's a pretty basic physics core four four six seven TK when we overclocked the for when we overclocked the r9 270 we saw the gravit score was eight thousand three hundred six so it's scaled pretty much in a straight line upwards which was really impressive so again you want to overclock your r9 270 if you have it the physics school was a little bit higher for some reason this time around as well at four point six gigs in two thousand megahertz memory when we move over to now to the lightening this scored on reference it scored fourteen thousand two hundred eighty two not the best score for a GTX 780 but the physics score was nine thousand two hundred eighty again it was a little bit low this was called two for my sis gigs and I think the memory was at two thousand as well this was my this is my usual here's my usual this is what I usually run my rearguard this is my GTX 780 overclocked it's called sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty one which is a beast grammar school that's pretty much as high as a 780ti what's some of the reference overclocked models the physics goal was higher as well so it managed to score nine thousand five hundred forty eight at four point six gigs so this was a pretty the 780 Lightning was a bit of a beast so when it was overclocked anyway let's move on now to the conclusion where I'll talk about a few different things so in conclusion this card is great value for money I thought there was some things that also I'm going to talk about some little things that I noticed jumping back on an AMD card especially at battlefield 4 when I compared it directly to my 780 I mean I did put it on low settings for this I noticed that was the occasional AMD micro stutter I mean that still kind of plagues the card I mean this card anyway so there was that occasional micro stutter and another thing as well I'll talk about it in mantle in the mantle video when I put this on mantle there was some really big like drops in frame rates that were measured on the frame fps calculating tool so I don't know what was going on there but essentially it's not a bad cut for 190 dollars I mean if you're in the States you definitely want to get the twin frozen model I think that's a hundred and eighty dollars so I mean there's some options there I'd probably recommend sticking to a better brand this brand here was kind of the real budget end I mean it wasn't bad but when I overclocked it something I didn't mention as well as that they eat the heat pipe here even though it only said 70 degrees this thing got really hot to touch this heat pipe here was like aha so I haven't had that in my rig for a very long time that actual really sizzling hot touch so something that this car did I mean I'd say it's just unique because this cool is probably not the best but all in all it's a good card for the money I can see myself recommending these things the next step up would probably be a GTX 760 I may buy a 750 Ti as well since I've got these benchmarks here I can then compare the 750 Ti to these benchmarks and another good thing about this is is that the overclocks as you guys saw scaled really well so if you get a 790 you want to pretty much overclock it to at least seven I am 270x speeds so that's something you don't want to do so it's a good card for the money and I really enjoyed it so if you liked this review please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already subscribe to tech yes City and I'll come back to you guys with a mental video very soon anyway peace out for now and bye