The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
by Ryan Smith on February 13, 2014 8:00 AM ESTCompany of Heroes 2
Our second benchmark in our benchmark suite is Relic Games’ Company of Heroes 2, the developer’s World War II Eastern Front themed RTS. For Company of Heroes 2 Relic was kind enough to put together a very strenuous built-in benchmark that was captured from one of the most demanding, snow-bound maps in the game, giving us a great look at CoH2’s performance at its worst. Consequently if a card can do well here then it should have no trouble throughout the rest of the game.
Company of Heroes 2 is a game that has consistently favored AMD’s GPUs, so the outcome here is no surprise. The R7 260 is performance competitive with the otherwise much more expensive GTX 660, leaving the R7 265 to happy stomp all over every NVIDIA card on this chart.
On a side note, for Radeon 5700 series owners looking for an AMD card that can double their performance for under $150, it looks like AMD has finally delivered, as evidenced by the performance of the R7 265 in this and other games. We’re looking at a fairly consistent 100% increase in performance here, which this coming some 4 years after the 5770 launched at $159 is clearly a long wait, but it does happen to coincide nicely with the 4 year upgrade cycle that many video card buyers are on these days.
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edzieba - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
It's not just a tool for flagging up multi-screen/multi-GPU stutter issues. By showing the distribution of frame times, you can tell the difference between two cards that both average 50fps, but where one delivers every frame in 20 +/- 1 ms, and the other at +/- 5. The latter will deliver a much smoother output, which is not apparent from a single-number metric.Anandtech readers are a pretty smart bunch. We'd much prefer Graph Overload to too little information, particularly when other sites provide the additional information as standard.
Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
Sounds like the first (+/- 1 ms) would deliver the smoother experience than the latter (+/- 5 ms). :)edzieba - Monday, February 17, 2014 - link
Urp, that's what I /meant/ to write...Cellar Door - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
This rebadge game is terrible. Both parties are guilty here but the fact that these products get reviewed on regular basis just makes no sense.Here is a proper review of the of the 265 and 260: Lets confuse everyone with new nomenclature and what basically is a 7850 from close to 2 years ago. These cards are nothing but cash cows for the mainstream.
This card is being launched to draw attention to AMD just before the GTX 750 Ti comes to the market, its nothing but emptying the stocks of poor quality chips.
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
Guess what: they wouldn't build GPUs if they wouldn't expect them to be cash cows!EnzoFX - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
THis has always been the case in the not-high-tier cards. Where have you been? I love these cards. What's wrong with an "update" to tried and true cards. I love these single-pcie-power cards. Besides, most games will prob still be targeting this level of power considering it's comparable to the new consoles.Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
First time I can remember there being rebadging was with the 8xxx / 9xxx series from nVidia, before that I don't remember it happening.LordOfTheBoired - Friday, February 14, 2014 - link
GeForce4 MX was a modified GeForce2. While not a straight same-component relabel, it WAS intentionally-misleading branding meant to make people think it was an upgrade from the GeForce 3 rather than a downgrade, and was very much in the spirit of the modern rebadge.That's the earliest example that springs to mind here.
rallyhard - Friday, February 14, 2014 - link
I agree that your example, the GeForce4 MX is one of the earliest, and probably one of the most misleading rebrands ever.The first video card I ever purchased was a rebrand that occurred a year earlier, though: the lowly Radeon 7000. It was the exact same card as the previous RV100-based Radeon LE, but they gave it a flashy new name when they introduced the new Radeon 7500 with the RV200 chip.
silverblue - Friday, February 14, 2014 - link
The GeForce 4 MX was probably a worse release than the 2 MX in that the latter was indeed based on the GeForce 2, but lacked the hardware transform and lighting capabilities of the GeForce 2 GTS and the earlier GeForce 256. The GeForce 2 MX 400 was the only model that had a chance of beating the 256 DDR.The Radeon 9000 was a hacked down 8500 LE, but I suppose considering the low number in the 9xxx series, there had to be a low-end part. Besides which, it did still have T&L.
I can't think of any straight rebrands from back then apart from the 7000.