The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
by Ryan Smith on February 13, 2014 8:00 AM ESTBioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite is Irrational Games’ latest entry in the Bioshock franchise. Though it’s based on Unreal Engine 3 – making it our obligatory UE3 game – Irrational had added a number of effects that make the game rather GPU-intensive on its highest settings. As an added bonus it includes a built-in benchmark composed of several scenes, a rarity for UE3 engine games, so we can easily get a good representation of what Bioshock’s performance is like.
Bioshock is one of a handful of times where we’ll see the new R7 260 series cards struggle against their GeForce competition. At ultra quality, a very playable framerate for both cards, the R7 265 falls behind the GTX 660 but still does reasonably well for the price, but the R7 260 is unable to keep up with the GTX 650 Ti.
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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?