AMD Radeon R9 270X

The Radeon R9 270X was a performance graphics card by AMD, launched in October 2013. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the Curacao graphics processor, in its Curacao XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12.0. The Curacao graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 212 mm² and 2,800 million transistors. It features 1280 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs. AMD has placed 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory on the card, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1000 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1050 MHz, memory is running at 1400 MHz.