ASUS R9 270 DirectCU II OC Review At TechPowerUp Gets Editor's Choice Award

The ASUS R9 270 DirectCU II OC review at Techpowerup was granted an Editors Choice award and a score of 9.2 by Graphics Editor, W1zzard. The R9 270 DirectCU II OC is based on AMD's Pitcairn GPU and features a full custom design with DirectCU II cooler and a factory overclock. According to Techpowerup the R9 270 DirectCU II OC sits right in the sweet-spot segment for gamers, at just below US $200. 

The ASUS R9 270 DirectCU II OC features 1280 Stream Processors, runs at 925MHz GPU clock and packs 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1400MHz (5600MHz effective) paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. Its DirectCU II cooler was also praised by Techpowerup with good room additional overclocking, which gave additional 10% of performance in their benchmarks.