sapphire 11220-00-20G Sapphire RADEON R9 270 Dual-X OC with Boost Graphics card Radeon R9 270 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 2 x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort lite retail (11220-00-20G)

The R9 270 supports DirectX 11.2 and all the latest game enhancements. It has 1280 stream processors and 2GB of GDDR5 memory delivering excellent performance in all but the most extreme settings, and is considerably faster than competing solutions in this price range.

HDMI with 3D

Support for Deep Color, 7.1 High Bitrate Audio, and 3D Stereoscopic, ensuring the highest quality Blu-ray and video experience possible from your PC.

DisplayPort 1.2

Doubling the effective bandwidth of previous DisplayPort implementations, DisplayPort 1.2 now includes support for Multi-Stream, allowing you to drive up to four separate monitors from a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector requires DP1.2 monitors or Multi-Stream compatible hub, Stereoscopic 3D monitor support and adds support for high quality, lossless, 7.1 channel audio formats.

Dual-Link DVI-D

Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI Digital Visual Interface, this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.

Dual-Link DVI-I

Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI Digital Visual Interface, this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.

Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology

GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.

AMD Stream Technology

Accelerate the most demanding applications with AMD Stream technology and do more with your PC. AMD Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of compute power locked up in your graphics processer on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone.

AMD Avivo HD DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray Playback

Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video DecoderUVD

28 nm GCN Graphic Core Next Architecture

The new 28nm GCN Architecture’s more efficient process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling a dramatic increase in processing power

PCI Express 3.0

PCI-Express 3.0 delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU GPU communication-up to 16GB/sec in each direction, maximizing the performance from your GPU when paired with the latest platforms.

AMD Eyefinity 2.0

The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations. Face it: the best just got better: The enhancements for AMD Radeon HD7000 series include: Stereo 3D-multi-display stereoscopic 3D support via DisplayPort 16K X 16K maximum display group resolution-output up to 268 megapixels per GPU.

SAPPHIRE Dual-X Cooling Technology

Famous for our exclusive cooling solutions like the award winning Vapor Chamber Cooling technology - Vapor-X, SAPPHIRE's reputation for innovative excellence continues to grow with the introduction of our new dual-extractor technology - Dual-X. Dual-X is a highly efficient multi-heatpipe cooler with dual fans that provide quiet and very cool operation during normal operating conditions, and superb cooling performance even under extreme load.

DirectX® 11.2

The tessellation performance on AMD Radeon R7/ R9 series is up to 2X faster than the previous generation, and DirectCompute performance is also faster to accelerate advanced post-processing, filtering, and anti-aliasing techniques. Direct X11 games has never looked this good.

OpenGL 4.3

OpenGL 4.3 improves the GPU efficiency by improving the shader process operation and capturing GPU tessellated geometry. The process of modifying an arbitrary subset of compress texture is also simplified. The memory management in handling shaders is more efficient as well.

Mantle

Properly enabled games will reach new heights of performance by speaking the language of Graphics Core Next architecture.

AMD Catalyst Control Center™

The AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual quality of your SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon™ based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC.

Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support

Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies. Requires a DVI to HDMI dongle on some models, an HD capable monitor and a Blu-ray drive

AMD PowerTune™ Technology

AMD PowerTune is a breakthrough technology that sets an entirely new direction for maximum performance at TDP. It allows the GPU to be designed with higher engine clock speeds which can be applied on the broad set of applications that have thermal headroom.

TriXX Utility

TriXX helps users to get the optimum performance from compatible SAPPHIRE graphics cards in any application by allowing them to monitor, tune and save different settings of key parameters for the card.

Windows® 7 support

WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs Certified drivers and logos are available for all SAPPHIRE HD2000, HD3000, HD4000 and HD5000 series cards ensuring compatibility and reliability with Microsoft Windows 7.

AMD App Acceleration

AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL, DirectCompute or DirectX Video Acceleration DXVA.

AMD PowerPlay with ZeroCore Power Technology

AMD PowerPlay is a power management technology in response to the GPU loading, AMD PowerPlay automatically manages the power consumption.

AMD ZeroCore Power technology allows your AMD Radeon™ GPU to consume virtually no power when in idle state5. When used with AMD CrossFire™ technology, it shuts down additional GPUs when they’re not in use.

AMD HD Media Accelerator

AMD HD Media Accelerator has been designed to help optimize and dramatically improve video playback on your computer by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration from your AMD Radeon GPU. With full 3D stereoscopic decode you can enjoy it all in 3D.

AMD HD Media Accelerator speeds up the decode of one 1080p and one 1080i HD video streams simultaneously by hardware, and the new hardware encodes/transcoder processes your media content faster than ever!

Cutting-edge Quad HD display support 4K Support

The display resolution on AMD Radeon HD7000 series is quadrupled to the resolution of 4KX2K 4096X2160 from the outputs of DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI.

Windows® 8/8.1 support

WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs Certified drivers and logos are available for SAPPHIRE cards ensuring compatibility and reliability with Microsoft Windows 8/8.1.

Feature list

Graphics processor:	Radeon R9 270
Maximum resolution:	2560 x 1600 pixels
CUDA:	N
Graphics processor family:	AMD
Processor clock speed:	920 MHz
Stream processors:	1280
Maximum displays per videocard:	3
Discrete graphics adapter memory:	2048 MB
Graphics adapter memory type:	GDDR5-SDRAM
Memory bus:	256 bit
Memory clock speed:	1400 MHz
Interface type:	PCI Express 3.0
DVI-D ports quantity:	1
DVI-I ports quantity:	1
DisplayPorts quantity:	1
HDMI ports quantity:	1
HDMI version:	1.4a
DVI port:	2
DisplayPort version:	1.2
TV tuner integrated:	N
PhysX:	N
DirectX version:	11.2
OpenGL version:	4.3
Full HD:	Y
Dual Link DVI:	Y
HDCP:	Y
Cooling type:	Active
Number of slots:	2
Colour of product:	Aluminium, Black
Interface adapters included:	DVI-I male - VGA female
Cables included:	HDMI
User guide:	Y

Sapphire RADEON R9 270 Dual-X OC with Boost Graphics card Radeon R9 270 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 2 x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort lite retail (11220-00-20G)