14 DAY TRIAL // Contrary to what it sounded like back when AMD announced the Radeon R9 Series, not all the boards ship with Battlefield 4 for free, at least not all OEM ones, but the Gigabyte GV-R927XOC-4GD is among them at least.
Well, halfway, if that makes any sense. There are two GV-R927XOC-4GD boards out, known broadly as the Radeon R9 270X OC 4GB.
One of them is a simple version, the other has the BF4 Origin key included in the package, and a shot of the player character on the box to boot.
Those are the only differences though. Otherwise, the newcomers are exactly the same video card, ready and raring to compete with any game that would throw itself at it.
For those who want to know the technical details, the newcomers (or newcomer, since it's a singe card), come with 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
This is important because the normal R9 270X has only 2 GB, although even those are more than enough for all games really.
The extra memory is bound to make things run better in multi-monitor configurations, EyeFinity technology as it were.
Moving on, the base GPU (graphics processing unit) frequency of the card is 1050 MHz, while the top GPU Boost is of 1100 MHz (PowerTune Boost frequency). Compare that to the stock of 1000 MHz / 1050 MHz and you have a pretty decent factory overclock.
That said, the GPU has 1,280 GCN2 (Graphics Core Next 2) stream processors and an interface of 256 bits for the memory (5.6 GHz, 179 GB/s bandwidth), plus 80 TMUs and 32 ROPs.
Finally, for connections with one or more monitors, the board features one dual-link DVI output, an HDMI 1.4a port and DisplayPort 1.2.
Needless to say, DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3, and Mantle APIs are all supported (application programming interfaces used to create programs and games).
