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The VTX3D R9 270X X Edition ships in a black and white box and features an image of the old ATI mascot – Ruby. As we said on the first page – be careful if you are buying this card online, because the box and name is identical to the previous single fan version of this card. Scan have it marked End Of Life, but it is still available on Amazon for £140.
Not much of a bundle, just some literature on installing the card, alongside a software disc and a video adapter. We do always recommend you get the latest Catalyst drivers from AMD's website. These software discs can be often 3 or 4 revisions behind and won't have the latest performance enhancements and bug fixes.
Gone are the single fan and red plastic cooler of the previous R9 270X X Edition. This update version ships with two fans and incorporates a PCB matching black shroud.
The card takes power from two 6 pin PCI e connectors.
It is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration.
The I/O plate has a DVI-I and DVI-D connector, alongside a full sized HDMI and DisplayPort.
It is widely known that AMD Radeon HD 7xxx parts (and earlier) currently can support a maximum of 2 HDMI/DVI displays, and the rest must be DisplayPort connections (or active DisplayPort adapters).
AMD Radeon R9 Series can now support up to three HDMI/DVI displays for use with AMD Eyefinity technology. A set of displays which support identical timings is required to enable this feature. The display clocks and timing for this feature are configured at boot time. As such, display hot‐plugging is not supported for the third HDMI/DVI connection.
A reboot is required to enable three HDMI/DVI displays.DisplayPort outputs are supported in addition to the three HDMI/DVI displays (up to 6 in total).
The cooler is formed around two thick copper heatpipes which run into the base and two separate rack of aluminum fins.
AMD’s R270X is built on the 28nm process. The core on this VTX3D board is clocked 80mhz higher than the reference design at 1,080mhz and it has 32 ROPs, 80 TMU’s and 1,280 Stream Processors. The 2GB of GDDR5 is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. The memory is clocked at 1,400mhz (5.6Gbps effective) which is identical to the reference board.
Great value card, can’t beat that for the price.
Thats a really good deal, wouldn’t be my first buy as a company (arent they powercolor?), their warranty terms are always bad in UK. But cheap as chips.