ASUS Radeon R9 270 Direct CU II Review

Name: ASUS Radeon R9 270 Direct CU II Review
Brand: ASUS

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

The Asus Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II clearly outpaced the GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650 Ti Boost in the Sleeping Dogs benchmark, especially at the higher resolution. Notice the huge jump in performance with the higher-end cards like the GTX 760 and R9 280X.

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With the exception of the Radeon HD 7790, all of the cards delivered fairly consistent frame times across the board in this benchmark. The Asus Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II in particular shows very small variations from frame to frame.

Tags: AMD, Asus, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, R9 270

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com