AMD Announces Radeon R7 265 Graphics Card

[N.Broekhuijsen]

AMD has let a graphics card creep up on us.

AMD Announces Radeon R7 265 Graphics Card : Read more

 

[de5_Roy]

stupid rebadging. amd shouldn't have phased out radeon hd 7850 2GB in the first place. still, we get two hugely powerful gfx cards (r7 265 and r9 270) only needing single 6 pin pcie power connector.

 

[AnEwG]

I hope you will review it once it comes out!

 

[jin_mtvt]

de5_Roy " ONLY NEEDING SINGLE 6 PIN " ??? what exactly are you trying to suggest here ??

 

[AnEwG]

The HD 7850 needs 2 6 pin connectors but that gives it a higher headroom for overclocking (I think). while the R7 265 has lower power consumption and slightly better performance than HD 7850 when they are both at stock.

Edit: Scratch that the HD 7850 consumes slightly less power. It is basically an overclocked HD 7850.

 

[InvalidError]

I wasn't expecting to see a 256bits RAM card in the R7-series... at least not until the 3xx models.

 

[de5_Roy]

de5_Roy " ONLY NEEDING SINGLE 6 PIN " ??? what exactly are you trying to suggest here ??

both gfx cards can run on lower wattage psus but deliver a lot of performance without needing much power.

The HD 7850 needs 2 6 pin connectors but that gives it a higher headroom for overclocking (I think). while the R7 265 has lower power consumption and slightly better performance than HD 7850 when they are both at stock.

radeon hd 7850 had single 6 pin pcie connector. radeon hd 7870 had 2x 6 pin power connectors.

 

[AnEwG]

de5_Roy " ONLY NEEDING SINGLE 6 PIN " ??? what exactly are you trying to suggest here ??

both gfx cards can run on lower wattage psus but deliver a lot of performance without needing much power.

The HD 7850 needs 2 6 pin connectors but that gives it a higher headroom for overclocking (I think). while the R7 265 has lower power consumption and slightly better performance than HD 7850 when they are both at stock.

radeon hd 7850 had single 6 pin pcie connector. radeon hd 7870 had 2x 6 pin power connectors.

My mistake.

 

[rolli59]

Being a Curacao based card surprising they did not call it R9 265 since it is a cut down R9 270 not tweaked Bonaire 260x.

 

[spartanmk2]

If this comes with 2 free games (Thief!) this just may be my upgrade from my now kaput GTX460.We'll see.

 

[RoryRaptr]

Getting anything with AMD products now days isn't a good deal. Take Raptr the AMD Gaming Evolved APP for AMD graphics owners.They've gone and erased all the points for all the users and given them lower value points.Using Raptr the desktop app users could earn points to get Graphics cards and Games. We are now finding our accounts and points being changed to significantly lower points. Why because AMD and Raptr does want users to get their rewards in the form of games, which many users were close to getting. They basically stole users points.

 

[RoryRaptr]

This is AMD Raptr it's reward program for optimizing games and using it's app.http://youtu.be/YiHPJGVNSJ8