Great price for the R9 270. These are rebranded HD7870 and is faster than the R7 370 ($219, rebranded HD7850 or R7 265).
You may need to wait till morning to see the upgraded price on Monday.
$149 (was $169) - Gigabyte R927OC-2GD 2GB R9-270 PCI-E VGA Card
$8 (was $12) - Gigabyte Desktop KM-5300 USB (K/B+Mouse)
What does a slow google show?
Lol good call
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270-vs-Radeon-R7-370
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-370-vs-Radeon-R9-270
dunno why you were negged
this is very sad… also whats with multigenerational rebadges?
pretty telling that even a 7850-7870-7950 is still pretty competitive
AMD:if Nvidia got away with it for multiple gens why cant we
to be fair, i dont think there's a better performing card for $200 or even $250
this card is $150
Try not to use gpuboss as a source for benchmarks when a proper google search requires almost no extra effort.
Forget the quick google search, even, just use a source based on benchmarks from a reputable site, like Tom's Hardware:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-rev…
No need for GPUboss's almost meaningless comparisons…
could they make the model numbers more confusing
@furythree It's deliberate.
They have to make the slower chips (out of bits that failed from faster chips), so they have to sell them somehow. So they give them a high number and fleece parents and such into buying them.
yep.
Just a weird rebranding with making the Fury X the flagship instead of the 390X. The 370 is technically further down the line than the 270 was, so I guess they hoped this move would make any sense at all. The 370 is just an overclocked R7 265, rather than an overclocked R9 270.
Gigabyte Desktop KM-5300 USB (K/B+Mouse). Was $12 not $8
ahh darn…. i just bought the 270 from PLE last week for $169…
Have a r9 270…….. In a box doing nothing…….
get a marker and turn it into a 370
but why would you want a SLOWER card?
may as well mark it a GTX970
370 slower than 270? :'(
I had high hopes for their new batch of cards but was bummed when I found out they were rebranded cards again
Current card is a 970 and it's performing well enough
Have a R9 280X sitting in a box doing nothing
I'll give you 3.50 for it
I'll give 3.51 :P
Is it worth updating from my dell desktop which has nvidia GT 720? In terms of Borge performance upgrade and power output that my dell xps can handle?
Dell xps 8700 by any chance??
yes sounds like it.
Sorry for the late reply….. my Dell xps 8700 came with the aforementioned r9 270 and it worked fine with the supplied oem psu(I did upgrade the psu for my gtx 970 tho.) Hope that info help. :)
thanks for the info. did you sell your graphics?
@bamsegod: nope Edit: Its a DELL OEM R9 270 (reference card) and this is the ozbargain deal I grabbed the pc from : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/125071
strange i bought mine not more than a month ago. they downgraded the graphics card… anyway the deal is gone.
Is it good enough for Revit/ArchiCAD? I was just about to build a new rig with Gigabyte N960WF2OC-2GD 2G GTX 960 OC primarily for Revit/ArchiCAD and a bit of gaming. This R9 270 is almost half the price though ($279 v $148) and that's enough savings to get another 16GB RAM.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-270-vs-GeForce-GTX-960
Twice the price, not twice the performance…
My feeling is these cards will only run cad in software mode? You need a quadro or firegl?
From what I gathered (not 100% sure), Revit/ArchiCAD are DirectX optimised rather than OpenGL therefore gaming cards are more suited than Quadro/FireGL which also cost a lot more. Plus it'll be used for a bit of gaming too.
In that case, yes, it will do well in those programs :)
My feeling is these cards will only run cad in software mode? You need a quadro or firegl?
No you don't. Revit has used Direct3D since it started.
Autodesk (developer of Revit/AutoCAD) will recommend hideously expensive workstation cards all the livelong day (as a get out-of-jail card when you contact support who will blame Revit's extensive list of issues on your PC) but all the available experience you can find on the web and my personal experience, shows modern gaming GPUs will do just fine. My suspicion is Autodesk and NVidia/AMD likely have some agreement worked out where the GPU manufacturers markup their workstations cards by several hundred percent (despite them performing worse than $300 gaming GPUs) and give a cut of these generous profits to Autodesk because Autodesk guarantees them such a huge and regular user base of Archiectural/Engineering/Visualisation clients (Autodesk is the Google of the CAD industry and is dominant worldwide) who have to stick with workstation cards to receive proper technical support from Autodesk and meet their certified hardware requirements.
There was a point in time, when Revit was in its infancy years ago where specially-optimised CAD performance drivers that were extensively developed by NVidia and AMD for Quadro/FireGL cards (and regularly updated) really made a huge difference in larger, complex models but those days are a thing of the past.
Yes, it will be fine for REVIT.
Quite often REVIT will sometimes crash with hardware acceleration on - Poorly written.
If you are buying new hardware pretty much the only thing that makes a difference with REVIT is RAM.
I put my order in for a new PC last week with 64GB purely for REVIT modelling and coordination.
And you are correct with build your PC as a gaming machine for REVIT - not as an OpenGL 3DStudio machine.
On one project we had cutting edge OpenGL technology and FireGL cards and REVIT ran like a dog.
It's adequate.
Revit/AutoCAD/ArchiCAD/SketchUp/MicroStation are not graphically intensive. You're better off worrying about getting all the RAM you can, a good, spacious SSD and a high-end CPU (the Xeon E3 1226 v3 is bang-for-your-buck).
The only time 3D acceleration really comes into play in Revit is in 3D views; which I am going to go out on a limb and say is not what 90% of Revit users do with Revit 90% of the time.
At work, I've quite comfortably run Revit 2014/2015 and AutoCAD 2014/2015 on GPUs as low-specced as the old 9800GT, GTS 250, Quadro 2000, or a GTX 560. Even though we have standardised most workstations with hideously expensive Quadro K4000s, I have to say, I am hard pressed to see actual, tangible differences between a $2000 something dollar K4000 and a $400 GTX 770 and our users agree. I've heard much the same from IT managers/Managed Service Providers for Architectural/Engineering/Visualisation firms who've partially or wholly switched from workstation GPUs to gaming GPUs (see my posts here on workstation vs gaming cards for CAD software).
As long as you're not working on gigantic and complex models that are 300MB or larger in size with hundreds of families/family elements/worksets/groups/views and imported files; then an R9 270 is more than adequate.
Ordered the R9 270! Thanks for the inputs!
I'm confused by the razer bundle, it has individual sale prices next to each which implies you can get them individually on sale, as well as in the bundle?
I want to get the kraken 7.1 chroma for the 97$ they have written there, but I don't know if it can be bought individually, anyone know?
In store only so can't even look at the individual online price to find out if it's on sale.
You can purchase them invidualy at special prices.
Thanks. I have already bought it.
First I went to the Malvern store and asked the guy there who said it can only be bought as part of the bundle. However, I wasn't convinced so I called up the Victorian phone number and asked and was told it can be bought separately. Stopped by the Brooklyn store on my way home and got them, but the guys at this store also didn't seem to be sure whether it was available for individual purchase at the sale price, I had to explain that I was told it was over the phone.
Good price but it should be communicated to the stores better.
This might be a cheap gaming card for me. It doesn't have a lot of the new features, such as freesync, or a hardware hvec decoder, so its not really going to be great in 2yrs time. Still for $148 it might be a pretty cheap option to get into 1440p gaming instead of a gtx960.
damn, quick google shows the Radeon R7 370 is even worse than R9 270!