AMD Radeon R7 265 Mainstream GPU Review
Test System and Unigine Heaven v4.0
How We Configured Our Test Systems: We tested the graphics cards in this article on an EVGA X79 Dark motherboard powered by an Intel Core i7-4960X six-core processor and 16GB of Corsair DDR3-1866 RAM. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the system UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" default settings and disable any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use. The memory's X.M.P. profile was enabled to ensure better-than-stock performance and the solid state drive was then formatted and Windows 8.1 Professional x64 was installed. When the installation was complete, we fully updated the OS and installed the latest DirectX redist along with all of the drivers, games, and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.
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Relevant Software: Windows 8.1 Pro x64 DirectX April 2011 Redist AMD Catalyst v14.1B v1.6 NVIDIA GeForce Drivers v334.69 Benchmarks Used: Unigine Heaven v4 3DMark "Fire Strike" Bioshock Infinite Hitman: Absolution Batman: Arkham City Metro Last Light Sleeping Dogs Crysis 3 FRAPS + FCAT |
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Unigine's Heaven Benchmark v4.0 is built around the Unigine game engine. Unigine is a cross-platform, real-time 3D engine, with support for DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL. The Heaven benchmark--when run in DX11 mode--also makes comprehensive use of tessellation technology and advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion). It also features volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm and a dynamic sky with light scattering.
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Unigine Heaven 4.0
The new Radeon R7 265 dropped right in between the Radeon R7 260X and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost in the Unigine Heaven benchmark, though the R7 265's performance was much closer to the higher-end Radeon R9 270X than it was to lower-end R7 260X.
