Club3D R9 270 royal Queen Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 03.06.14Page:
The card
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Club3D decided to equip its Radeon R9 270 royalQueen with their CoolStream cooler. As the R9 270 is more of a mid-range graphics card now, the cooler is not that really impressive, and Club3D kept things simple in that department. In this case you get two eight millimeter copper heatpipe in direct contact with the GPU, the usual aluminium fin stack and a single 85mm PWM DC brushless ball bearing fan. This one is manufactured by Power Logic and carry the model number PLA09215D12H.
The manufacturing quality is not excellent but still good for this graphics card range, as you can see that Club3D has done everything to optimize the price. When we take a better look at the temperatures we have 32 degrees in idle and 69 degrees in full load using Furmark.
The Club3D R9 270 royalQueen graphics card, or to be precise our sample of
it, allowed a maximum stable overclock of 1275 MHz for the GPU and 1600 MHz on the memory side. We used Furmark V1.11.0 Geeks3D benchmark with 15 minutes duration. With these clocks we had to feed the GPU with 1.21 Volts and the
memory ran at stock voltages.
A closer look at the PCB shows that Club3D used a reference design PCB on the R9 270 royalQueen. The power design is left untouched, all components are the same as on the reference card. In this case you get a so called 4+1+1-phase power design where four phases are for the GPU, one for the memory and the last one for the PLL.
Checking the voltage regulation chips we find the four-phase analog controller NCP5395T from ON (ON Semiconductor) for the GPU and two single-phase controllers ANPEC APW7165C for both memory and PLL.
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The memory chips used are made by SKhynix and carry the model number H5GC2H24BFR. These are specified to run at 1'400 MHz (5'600 MHz effective).
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