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.
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:
| 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 |