We take a look at AMD's mid-range R9 270X and R9 270 with an MSI R9 270X GAMING and SAPPHIRE R9 270 Dual-X. We will make comparisons to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760 using a retail card which is within this range of AMD's GPUs. We will overclock all three video cards and put these head-to-head for the ultimate mid-range performance comparison.

AMD's mid-range lineup, the AMD R9 270X and AMD R9 270 have yet to be evaluated by us, and that is about to change. Whenever possible, we like to use retail video cards as the comparison card for our main video card evaluations.

Normally we would take the AMD R9 270X GPU based retail card being evaluated today and compare it with reference cards. Then, we'd do another separate review on the AMD R9 270 GPU based retail card being evaluated and compare it with reference cards. However, since the competitive reference card that needs to be compared to both video cards is the same, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, and the performance and price points are similar between all cards, we can bring all three retail cards together for you and compare these in one review.