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For our overclocking tests today we used the latest version of MSI Afterburner, which is based around Rivatuner.
There was some decent headroom on our engineering sample. We managed to increase the core clock speed from 1050mhz to 1,176mhz – translating into a 12% overclock. The memory could be overclocked from 1,400mhz to 1,567mhz (6.26Gbps effective) – which was also a 12% overclock. Obviously every card will be different, but we would imagine that AMD partners will be pushing their overclocked models to around 1,100mhz-1,150mhz.
The overclock translated into a very healthy score increase in 3dMark 11, from a graphics score of 8,222 points to a GTX760 beating 9,112 points. It will be very interesting to test some of the highly overclocked partner cards later.
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So the only card with the new audio features is a budget model? what? The 270x is basically the same performance as a HD7870 Tahiti LE and 280X is a 7970ghz ed?
Anyone else wondering if AMD have anything new at all to release? 290x? come on. its going to be £600, no one can afford that!!@
@Ben Both companies have done the same in terms of “re-branding”, only the GTX 780 is a new card.
For this card, i am somewhat impressed how they have managed to beat a 7870 LE, whilst consuming a lot less power. Cooler is a bit of a let down, but i would never buy a reference card anyway, ASUS Direct CU all the way!
I have a HIS R9 270 (nonX) I was able to get a stable 1100mhz overclock, For some reason I can only use the HIS iTurbo program to overclock it, When I used Afterburner it cause driver crashes, When i use saphire Trix it caused a Red screen, LOL At first I was angry thinking I got a card that would not overclock well, But when I tried the HIS iTurbo software and +4 on powertune it worked like a charm, I ran Unigine Heaven 4 times just to make sure. I may try 1150mhz next, But I should not press my luck. I should be happy it clocks to and past 270X speeds and calm down. But not bad for a GPU I only paid $179 for.