AMD Radeon R7 265 Mainstream GPU Review

Name: AMD Radeon R7 265 Mainstream GPU Review
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 13, 2014, 08:00 AM EDT

Batman: Arkham Orgins is a prequel to 2011’s excellent Batman: Arkham City. This recently released prequel, however, lives up to and even surpasses its predecessor in many ways. The game has DirectX 9 and 11 rendering paths, with support for tessellation, multi-view soft shadows, and ambient occlusion. We tested in DX11 mode with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values, at resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

Batman: Arkham Origins

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Batman: Arkham Origins

The tides turned once again in Batman: Arkham Origins. The NVIDIA powered cards put up significantly better performance at both resolutions than their AMD-based counterparts, and as a result, the new Radeon R7 265 trails the GeForce GTX 650 Ti by a relatively wide margin here.

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In terms of frame times / frame pacing, the AMD-based cards suffered from a shot hiccup at the beginning of the test run, but generally speaking there are no issues to report here.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GCN, R7 265

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com