Sapphire Announces Radeon R9 270X Black Diamond Edition

[btarunr]

Sapphire gave the Radeon R9 270X some Tri-X treatment, and a high factory-overclock, with its Black Diamond Edition graphics card, which is exclusive to the Greater China region. The card features the same triple-fan Tri-X cooling solution with back-plate as some R9 280X graphics cards, featuring a meaty aluminium fin heatsink that's ventilated by a trio of fans. It offers a factory core overclock of 1100 MHz, and a memory overclock of 6.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective); compared to AMD reference speeds of 1000 MHz core, 1050 MHz boost, and 5.60 GHz memory. Other features include temperature-activated color LED logo badge, and dual-BIOS with UEFI modules. Based on the 28 nm "Curacao" silicon, the Radeon R9 270X features 1,280 stream processors, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory.



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[mr2009]

that sure looks like Tri-X. why black diamond?

 

[The Quim Reaper]

Jesus....never mind a bigger case., I'd need to build a room extension to house that.

 

[brunello]

that sure looks like Tri-X. why black diamond?

which is exclusive to the Greater China region

all manufacturer has their "special edition" (sometimes with strange name) only for Chinese market

 

[HumanSmoke]

that sure looks like Tri-X. why black diamond?

Agreed. Even has the same specs as the Tri-X. Maybe Black Diamond means something portentous in Chinese.

 

[mr2009]

i wonder how much it gonna cost? probably close to dual-x r9 280 price?

 

[NC37]

all manufacturer has their "special edition" (sometimes with strange name) only for Chinese market

Yet with loads of English on the box.

lol, seriously, why even make it exclusive yet don't have the box completely in the country's native language?