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Feb. 26, 2018 by Kimberly Parks

The new numbers are also concerning to those who want to see the most expensive graphics cards available now: the Radeon R9 380, R9 380X, and the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. "The R9 380 is a great performer, but there is a huge shortage of R9 380X graphics cards, and there's no good way to get one," AMD's Peter Wood said. "The R9 380X, for example, is available now for $599, which is cheaper than the $599 Radeon R9 380. In contrast, the Radeon R9 380X, a high-performance card, can run at $599. Even if the R9 380X does run very well on the high end, we can't say it can beat the GTX 980 Ti or Radeon R9 270X because they are $799 higher. The Radeon R9 270X in general is a big upgrade from the R9 280X, which has a much lower performance and higher power. However, the R9 270X makes its gaming run and performance numbers go down.

"The R9 270X is a very high-end card, but the performance numbers at the launch of the R9 260X are a lot higher than our expectations. The R9 270X is the best Radeon R9 290X, which is priced at $549. In the short term, we believe the R9 290X will be a real winner in this segment. If the R9 270X is a winner, it will lead to a lot of new entrants in the space, especially in gaming," Wood said.

With the R9 270X, Nvidia has the option to offer the first major graphics card ever to launch on the new GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA.

"The R9 270X is the first graphics card to release on the GeForce 400 series, which is the most powerful graphics card ever made," Nvidia said. "In the short term, the R9 270X is probably the most powerful graphics card ever built. The R9 270X is the first graphics card with dedicated GPU cores that are capable of rendering up to 10 million triangles per second. By comparison, the Radeon R9 290X, which is a bit slower, is at 8 million triangles per second and is only able to run at 60 million triangles per second, but is more than twice as fast as the Radeon HD 6850, which is a couple of times faster."