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The ASUS R9 270 ships in a slim line box. No pictures of the actual card, although ASUS do focus on the cooler in the middle of the box.
ASUS supply a Crossfire connector, along with a software disc, setup guide and a video converter.
The Asus R9 270 Direct CU II OC houses two fans spanning the full length of the PCB underneath. The cooler slightly overhangs the end of the PCB as shown above. Both cooler and PCB are black, with some red accenting on the cooler.
The Asus R9 270 Direct CU II OC is equipped with a single Crossfire connector for a 2 way configuration.
The card takes power from a single 6 pin power connector.
This card has two DVI connectors, alongside a full sized HDMI and DisplayPort connector. It is Eyefinity capable.
The Asus Direct CU II cooler comprises of two direct contact heatpipes – running into two separate racks of aluminum fins on either side of the core.
ASUS have overclocked this card to 975mhz, higher than the Sapphire Dual-X version which we also reviewed today (945mhz). Memory speeds are 1,400mhz (5.6Gbps effective). The core is built on the 28nm process. It has 32 ROPS, 80 Texture units and the 2GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a 256 bit memory interface.
Its a nice card and I love the DC II cooler, but I think the price is a little high, even with battlefield 4.
ERAN – asus are always more expensive, but they build their cards better
They dont really need the 270 and 270x, just drop the price of the 270x and they could clean up in the market. too many cards right now and its too complicated.
Good performance and at least the shaders are up to 1280 over 1024 on the 7850. Only thing I feel is that AMD partners will sell the 270x at very close to 270 pricing, so not much point in having both. $20 difference? who will buy a 270 – feels like the 6830 and 6850 all over again. the cheaper part never sold as retail prices were so close.