Turbo Boost
On the right side of the box we once again have the IceQ X2 logo, images depicting the GPU has 2GB GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, Kingdom of Gamer (HIS registration, technical support and E-news), what’s in the box (HIS Graphics Card, DVI-D to VGA Adapter, HIS Power Up Label, Install CD and quick installation guide).
This time round I decided to give HIS iTurbo a bigger crack of the whip (also because it’s very similar to MSI Afterburner anyway). So being heavy handed I straight away hit iTurbo on! This gives a little push in the right direction with a Boost clock of 1151MHz and Memory clock of 1414MHz (5656MHz effective). The card is of course already heavily overclocked out of the box with a GPU Boost of 1140MHz). Which is a pretty big jump up from the AMD Reference Design with it’s Boost clock at 1050MHz!
Free Battlefield 4? Yes please! While still a little clunky, BF4 is a game that many of us want, so why not eh? Again I must also state that currently BF4 runs particularly smoothly on AMD cards, with HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ X2 Turbo Boost Clock giving an average FPS of 45.8. Maybe the imminent release of AMD’s Mantle Technology may bring further improvements still, I guess we will have to wait and see…
For example, Intel will be releasing a processor called the Core i7 620UM . This processor has a base clock speed of only 1.06GHz. However, it has a maximum Turbo Boost of 2.133 GHz. What we will end up with is a processor which will run at only the base clock when on battery but can double its speed when plugged in.
I want to remind people that CPU utilization occurs in micro-bursts, and the % use per second is not a perfect representation of how fast or slow a CPU is. That is to say, just because that metric shows only 75% of a CPU consumed, that doesn't mean that you had an 'extra' 25% laying around. The speed at which that 75% was executed matters too. At best this metric gives you some idea of how CPU intensive your operations are.
Normally the computer processor in your laptop or desktop has a standard clock speed which partially determines how quickly it performs. While the processor might lower its clock speed at times in order to conserve power, the clock speed which is stated when you buy the computer is the fastest clock speed you’ll receive unless you decide to overclock.
So would it seem HIS have done all the hard work for you and overclocked the card to it’s limit???? Simply put, no. By pushing the voltage right up, I managed to raise the HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ X2 Turbo Boost Clock further still, giving it a Boost clock of 1205MHz and a memory clock of 1500MHz (6000MHz effective). Which for a GPU with an RRP of £170 is pretty stunning, let’s see exactly what these increases do to the benchmarks.
The HIS iTurbo application is a nice and very simple to use piece of software (although it didn’t ‘Turbo’ the card as high as I had hoped!). I managed an incredible manual overclock, which when duplicated via MSI Afterburner gave the same results. Sadly those high overclocks didn’t transfer over to massive gains in performance as hoped, I guess the HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ X2 Turbo Boost Clock leaves the factory right near its very limits and it just goes to show how good a job HIS have already done.
do consider the prices as well is it worth or not . I am a software developer in I use jvm for scala and java and mongodb also a remote desktop if I am working from home … but mostly I will need for my home use which will have a google chrome an eclipse(IDE) some instance of mongodb running and ofcourse the jvm .. that is pretty much it …. Please suggest which would do the job also considering the money aspect
The R9 270X IceQ X2 Turbo Boost Clock graphics card offers you plenty of bang for your buck. Whilst it won’t offer you earth shattering performance (should that be bank account shattering??), it’s still a very good mid-range GPU and a free copy of Battlefield 4 makes it a bit of a bargain, especially for anyone wanting to play games at 1080p. Although sadly the card isn’t currently available in the uk.
Turbo Boost gets rid of this compromise. If you use the Core i5 750 in a 3D rendering application it will probably only operate at its base clock speed because all four cores will be used. However, if you use the Core i5 750 with a game which only needs two cores ““ presto! – the third and fourth cores go into a low power state and the two cores you’re actually using are running at a clock speed as fast as what you’d expect from a standard dual core processor.
Meet the new AMD Radeon 7870GHz Edition! Wait a minute, that’s not right. Here we have the HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ X2 Turbo Boost Clock (H270XQMT2G2M) Graphics Card. This is based around the same Pitcairn architecture of the AMD Radeon 7800 series. The R9 270X is very similar to the 7870GHz Edition released in 2012, but offers a few of AMD’s newer technologies (see features below) and as a result it’s a notable improvement.
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