With their R9 270 royalQueen Club3D have another entry-level discrete GPU in their portfolio. The card boasts a custom cooler mounted on a GPU that sits on a reference design PCB. This combination is good for a 30 MHz factory overclock, which should put this card a little bit ahead of reference clocked competition.

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Presentation

Today, we are taking a look at one of Club3D's recently release R9 Poker Series graphics cards, the Radeon R9 270 royalQueen. 

With the Club3D Radeon R9 270 royalQueen you get a reference card which features a custom cooler. The ASIC quality measured on our sample was 69.8 % which is on the average.
About ASIC quality:

Specifications

	Radeon R9 270X	Club3D R9 270 royalQueen	Radeon R9 270	Radeon HD 7870
Chip	Pitcairn XTL Curacao XT	Pitcairn Curacao	Pitcairn Curacao	Pitcairn XT
Process	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2.80 billion	2.80 billion	2.80 billion	2.80 billion
GPU clock	1'050 MHz	955 MHz	925 MHz	1'000 MHz
Memory GDDR5	2'048 MB	2'048 MB	2'048 MB	2'048 MB
Memory clock	1'400 (5'600) MHz	1'400 (5'600) MHz	1'400 (5'600) MHz	1'200 (4'800) MHz
Memory interface	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	179.2 GB/s	179.2 GB/s	153.6 GB/s
Shader Cores	1'280	1'280	1'280	1'280
TMUs	80	80	80	80
ROPs	32	32	32	32
TDP	180 Watt	146 Watt	150 Watt	190 Watt
PCB Type	Reference Design	Custom Design	Reference Design	Reference Design
Lenght (PCB - Total)	xx.x - xx.x cm	20.8 - 22.9 cm	xx.x - xx.x cm	xx.x - xx.x cm
Height (PCB - Total)	11.1 - 11.1 cm	11.1 - 12.2 cm	11.1 - 11.1 cm	11.1 - 11.1 cm
Slots	2	2	2	2
Cooler	AMD Reference	CoolStream	AMD Reference	AMD Reference
Launch Price	$145	$143	$125	$350

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Page 2 - The card	Page 12 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - Photo Gallery / Delivery	Page 13 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Test Setup	Page 14 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - 3DMark Fire Strike	Page 15 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Unigine Heaven 4.0	Page 16 - GTA V
Page 7 - BattleField 3	Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Bioshock Infinite	Page 18 - Temperatures / Noise levels
Page 9 - Crysis 3	Page 19 - Performance/Price & Performance/Watt
Page 10 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2	Page 20 - Conclusion