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AMD Radeon R9 270 Graphics Card Review


AMD Radeon R9 270 Graphics Card Review

Today, AMD pulls back the curtain on the R9 270, which extends the R9 family down to the $179 price point. This is the family’s most affordable member, and it’s also the least power-hungry. It gets by with a single six-pin PCI Express power connector with a “typical board power” of only 150W, by AMD’s count.

The R9 270 will face off against Nvidia’s fastest sub-$200 card, the GeForce GTX 660. Nvidia slashed the GTX 660’s price to $179 last month, although today, a Newegg search shows the card selling for $190 before mail-in rebates. AMD, then, has an opportunity to undercut Nvidia with a newer product. But will the R9 270 be better? … at TechReport