AMD has announced a new mid-range graphics card: the Radeon R7 265. This graphics card priced at USD $149 is based on a Pitcairn GPU and packs 1024 stream processors clocked at 925MHz. The R7 265 is the most powerful member of the R7 family. This new card fills the gap between the R7 260X and the R9 270X. The R7 265 is refresh with higher clock speeds of the prev-gen Radeon HD 7850.
Radeon R7 265 specifications:
- GPU: Pitcairn @ 925MHz
- Shader processors: 1024
- Texture units: 64
- ROP units: 32
- Compute performance: 1.89TFLOPS
- Memory: 2GB GDDR5 @ 5.6GHz (GDDR5-effective), 256-bit
- TDP: 150W
- Power connector: one 6-pin
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.3, Direct3D 11.2 and Mantle
- Computing APIs: OpenCL 1.2, DirectCompute
Links:
- AMD Radeon™ R7 Series Graphics
- Sapphire Radeon R7 265 2 GB review
- AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB Review – Pitcairn takes another pass
- AMD Announces Radeon R7 265 Video Card and Cuts R7 260X Prices
- AMD lance la Radeon R7 265, une HD 7850 Overclockée
Not a great release!
Memory bandwidth is very high, 7850-7870 had 153Gb\sec if I remember right.
Oh it seems this is overclocked variant on the GPU-Z screen, 5.6GHz x 256 /8 = 179.2Gb/Sec