Hardware AMD Radeon R7 265 Review

thank you again for adding in the GTX 480 scores to some of the game tests - really great to see where the `old` Fermi flagship is sitting now!

 

I was sorely tempted to get one of these as a 'stop-gap' GPU after upgrading to a new monitor, get a few months use out of it whilst waiting for the new GPU's from AMD/Nvidia.

Seemed like an ideal, cheap card, but with the announcemnt of delays in new GPU's for 2014, I decided to go for something with a little more grunt to last into 2015 (Nvidia 760).

Still a damn good cheap card though, and an ideal one for a budget build.

 

I like how you add some older cards like the GXT480 or even last "mid rangers" like GTX 650Ti, as it is a good comparison to what people may be running and what performance boost they can expect to see. Sadly we don't all have 295X2s...

 

Yep, kudos for adding older cards for comparison - very useful.

 

anyone else still using an HD 4850?

 

Great card the little HD7850 (R7 265 whatever).

The little card in my wifes machine (HD7850 1GB) cranks along well enough. I need something faster to muck around with Eyefinity / Surround, but it handles 1080p quite nicely.

I think I heard it cry a little last night when I asked it to run Crysis 3 at 5888x1080. All medium settings and overclocked to 1150/5600 it managed a massive 22-30fps. Oddly enough there were no VRAM issues which was surprising.

 

er ...4890

 

Will you be doing any benchmarks using Mantle instead of DX11 at any point?

 

Great review.

Good to see that the power consumption is reasonable.

 

Rushed back to hunt for my card after reading this!

 

I think the efficiency provided by a 750Ti is given to much status. Don't get me wrong it nice to have the card provide GTX 480 gaming from a PCI-E only, I just think reviews discount AMD's ZeroCore.

I'd like to see two identical OEM i3 boxes with an 750Ti and a R7 260X. Then run them identically for a month the way most people in this range of entry level gaming get used. Today most people never shut-down their system they "Sleep"￾ them, and that's probably more than 80% of the time (minimum 19.2 hour a day), while say 10% (2.4hr's a day) of the time browsing, emails, homework, watching YouTube, and finally 10% of the time gaming. So 80% of the time the GTX750Ti is pulling 5 watts compared to the AMD ZeroCore pull 1-2watts. So does gaming 10% of the month and the 750Ti drawing 30% less during that period save enough to see a significant savings? I'd sure like to know how much of a difference there would be between them in a months' time.

Then right today figure a 260X and then a nice new 430W Corsair modular Bronze+ PSU would cost you about what most 750Ti with factory OC, that then many have included a 6-pin. Most reviews that tested OC'd 750Ti with 6-pin indicate they are compensatory to have the card run correctly.

Lastly is 1080p performance on a i3 (or other entry machine) to provide playable FpS, either card would need to have settings juggled (medium-high) which most novices would be hard pressed to see and visual difference coming across their monitors.

I say a nice new PSU (backbone) is always a system first order especially nowadays with power efficient PSU (Bronze+) so inexpensive; then just a 260X... together they goes a lot further to efficiency than just a GTX 750Ti. While would you think of OC'n a 750Ti above what came factory on a 300-350 watt OEM PSU that's 3 year old?

 

Welcome to the forum - can you please edit your post to replace the random signs with 's

Thanks