The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus

Company 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.