Asus R9 270 Direct CU II OC Review

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.

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