The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
by Ryan Smith on February 13, 2014 8:00 AM ESTThe Test
Starting with this review we are moving to the latest iteration of our GPU benchmark suite, which drops Battlefield 3 for a now far more stable Battlefield 4. We had been hoping to further augment the list to bring it to 10 games, but our other candidates from the late-fall/winter releases have proven unsuitable for benchmarking (e.g. Assassin’s Creed IV framerate cap), so we’re staying with 9 games for the time being.
For this review we’ve also updated all of our included AMD cards to account for AMD’s recently released Catalyst 14.1 beta driver, although the performance impact from it on our current test suite is minimal. We would note that we have encountered random stability issues with this driver that were not present on 13.12, resulting in a driver crash and a system hard-lock at various times.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill RipjawZ DDR3-1866 4 x 8GB (9-10-9-26) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: |
XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost AMD Radeon HD 7870 AMD Radeon HD 7850 AMD Radeon HD 7770 AMD Radeon R9 270X HIS Radeon R9 270 IceQ X2 Asus Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost |
| Video Drivers: |
NVIDIA Release 334.67 Beta AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta v1.6 |
| OS: | Windows 8.1 Pro |
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TheJian - Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - link
How is that possible when all of the pricing is fake? You are ignoring REAL pricing much like anandtech. They should draw conclusions based on REAL pricing, and ignore ALL companies MSRP. If I can't buy it, it's still fake until I can for MSRP. IE, 290x is $700 right now (actually $709 cheapest on amazon - 3 in stock), NOT $550. So reviews based on $550 pricing are not real. Anandtech continues to give the benefit of the doubt 'one day it might be MSRP and a good deal if they can get to MSRP quickly'...LOL. Is a $709 290x a good deal vs. 780ti? NOPE.thejoelhansen - Saturday, April 26, 2014 - link
I hope I didn't overlook something obvious, but are the GTX 760 results missing?