AMD launches Radeon R7 265

Ahead of Nvidia’s onslaught with architecture Maxwell and mid-range Geforce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 cards, AMD is upgrading the Radeon 200 series. Shortly after the launch of the Radeon R7 250X, a slightly more lavish model arrives, the purpose of which is to fill the void left by the Radeon HD 7850.

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Specifications: Radeon R7 265

	R7 265	R7 260X	R7 260	R7 250X
GPU	Curacao Pro	Bonaire XTX	Bonaire Pro	Cape Verde XT
Technical	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN
Streamproc.	1 024 st.	896 st.	768 st.	640 st.
Texture units	64 st.	56 st.	48 st.	40 st.
Raster units	32 st.	16 st.	16 st.	16 st.
Memory bus	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	2GB	2 GB	1 GB	1 GB / 2 GB
Minnestyp	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
GPU frequency	925 MHz	1 100 MHz	1 000 MHz	1 000 MHz
Memory frequency	5 600 MHz	6 500 MHz	6 000 MHz	4 500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179,2 GB/s	104 GB/s	96 GB/s	72 GB/s
Trueaudio/XDMA	No	And	And	No
TDP	150 W	115 W	95 W	95 W
Price (Euro excl. VAT)	109 €	89 €	79 €	69 €

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The newcomer Radeon R7 265 is based on a slimmed-down variant of the graphics circuit Curacao, which with 1,024 stream processors resembles the Radeon HD 7850. The graphics card comes with a clock frequency of 925 MHz and has a class wide memory bus of 256 bits with 2 GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 600 MHz.

It is worth noting that the graphics card lacks support for features such as Trueaudio and XDMA, which are exclusive to the more modern circuits Bonaire and Hawaii. However, there is support for the programming interface (API) Mantle, as Curacao is based on the company’s architecture Graphics Core Next.

Radeon R7 265 will be available in stores shortly at the recommended sales price of 109 euros excluding VAT, corresponding to 1,200 kronor including VAT. In connection with the launch, the Radeon R7 260X will also be price-adjusted, which will fall in price by just over a hundred kroner.

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