The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
by Ryan Smith on February 13, 2014 8:00 AM ESTCrysis: Warhead
Up next is our legacy title for 2013/2014, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 5 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down. Crysis was intended to be future-looking as far as performance and visual quality goes, and it has clearly achieved that. We’ve only finally reached the point where single-GPU cards have come out that can hit 60fps at 1920 with 4xAA, never mind 2560 and beyond.
For Crysis: Warhead, AMD is once again in control. The R7 265 trails only the other 200 series Pitcairn cards, passing the GTX 660 by 6%. Meanwhile the R7 260 holds an even greater 14% advantage over the GTX 650 Ti.
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Death666Angel - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
Who is surprised by that? No one that is following GPU reviews since multi-monitors became a thing for the consumer crowd. The first few generations had issues with monitors flickering in a multi-monitor setup because of too aggressive down clocking, so now they are being very conservative there and increase the clocks quite a bit.Solid State Brain - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
I don't think it's acceptable, though. AMD might have reduced idle consumption when a single monitor is being driven, but is still neglecting other usage scenarios that are becoming increasingly common. It's not even just a small power difference, especially with medium to high-end video cards.Da W - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
STFU.Anandtech had no problem calling 290 - 290X a terrible card because of its blower and the NOISE and crowning Nvidia once again. Much more now with AMD price hike.
The only biased guy here is YOU Nvidia fanboy.
silverblue - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
I don't think the price hikes are AMD's fault per se, however considering the inflated prices due to bitmining, you'd definitely want a better cooler than the stock one. The third party cards handle this nicely.Da W - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
My last post was directed to HisDivineOrder but the reply button doesn't seem to place my reply below his post.formulav8 - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
They always complain when something good is said about AMD whether the good is justified or not justified. They don't care either way.SolMiester - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
If this is just the 7xxx rebadge, then I guess it has the same multi GPU frame pacing issues....LOL, why dont they fix the damn thing FFS!...no CF Eyefinity, no DX9 pacing.....still shit!fiasse - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
Typo 'and R7 270 holding at $179 (MSRP)'Mr Perfect - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
With the naming of the card being so close to the 260X, I was really hoping this would be a faster GN1.1 part. How does AMD expect TrueAudio to catch on if they keep releasing card that don't support it? Hopefully the 300 series will sort this out and I can grab one to play Thief on.fiasse - Thursday, February 13, 2014 - link
looks like another typo on Asus R7 260 page, 'but this is an especially treacherous position if R7 260X prices quickly come down to $199.'