AMD has launched the AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card, joining the R9 280X, R9 290 and R9 290X graphics cards, are designed for enthusiast gamers who expect next-generation hardware that can shatter the boundaries of realism and performance.
“The AMD Radeon R9 270 GPU continues AMD’s tradition of delivering world-class performance, features and multi-monitor support at an incredible value,” says Matt Skynner, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD.
Based on AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, the AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card is enhanced by Mantle, an industry-acclaimed technology developed by AMD to enable today’s top game developers to harness the GCN-powered cores of both PCs and consoles. Mantle delivers a streamlined development process and games enabled with Mantle will be able to speak the native language of the GCN architecture, benefiting from hardware optimization that unlocks revolutionary performance and image quality. “With Mantle, exceptional performance and ultimate gaming experiences are synonymous with AMD Radeon R7 and R9 Series graphics cards. Once again, AMD proves that Radeon is gaming.” Matt adds
The AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card is ideal for gamers looking to play the latest games at 1080p with high settings. A single power connector and 150W TDP also make it ideal for users with longer upgrade cycles that are looking to squeeze more life out of their current gaming rig.
1,280 Stream processing units, 925MHz engine clock, 2GB GDDR5 memory, 1.4 GHz , 179.2 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 2.69 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power , API support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 are additional features of the AMD Radeon R9 270 graphic cards.