270X is essentially a rebadged 7870, albeit with slightly faster RAM.

Make sure your PSU is up to the task of supplying the additional 90W. At 500W, I don't think you'll have any issues unless it's a crappy PSU, though.

I have the xfx 7870. Works really well. Ditto what forbin said about checking your PSU and also the actual card itself is quite big, dwarfed the card it was replacing sizewise.

If you can find one, you also have the HD7950 3GB which is around the same price and would offer a little more performances.. I just bought one for 189euro including a 3 games voucher. GL!

I'm not that experienced in hardwares as others but I bought the HD 7870 2 GB GhZ Edition few months ago and it runs pretty well here. Enough performance for a good amount of money imo.

Just my 2 cents.

Quote from FireMike15 :

I'm not that experienced in hardwares as others but I bought the HD 7870 2 GB GhZ Edition few months ago and it runs pretty well here. Enough performance for a good amount of money imo.

Just my 2 cents.

Of course it is a good card, but when you buy a new one it is all about getting the best BANG for the buck you spend.

I compared the SAPPHIRE DUAL-X R9 270X 2GB OC with XFX HD7870 Double Dissipation (FX-787A-CDFC) and the main difference is the memory clock. the R9 is 800 mhz faster. For the rest there isn't much difference. amount of stream processors in the xfx is 1536 over 1280 of the R9. XFX uses 10 watts more.

So it's almost the same and more of a "what feels better" choice.

I would go for the R9 tough

What I've heard Sapphire Radeon 7870 XT Boost is best in those 7870 models. Also I compared it to R9 270X and 7870 XT had better results

I know a lot about this things and i recomend hd 7870 its better especially xfx.
R7 is in a range with gtx 650 1gb which im planing to buy but if you have more money buy the xfx radeon.

Quote from Tomislav531 :

I know a lot about this things and i recomend hd 7870 its better especially xfx.
R7 is in a range with gtx 650 1gb which im planing to buy but if you have more money buy the xfx radeon.

You know not of what you speak.

http://anandtech.com/bench/GPU14/815

Quote from Tomislav531 :

I know a lot about this things and i recomend hd 7870 its better especially xfx.
R7 is in a range with gtx 650 1gb which im planing to buy but if you have more money buy the xfx radeon.

R7 IS in range of gtx 650 but we are talking about R9's here so.. eh.

E: Anyways, it's an old topic.

Sorry I didnt read it very good but i think r9 is now really better.
Watch some videos or compare.
http://gpuboss.com/?product1=r ... nd1=true&found2=false
Here you can se preformance and reasons to consider.