It's powered by a Curacao chip and may be priced at $149 / €149

Feb 12, 2014 07:55 GMT  ·  By

In addition to the Radeon R9 280, Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a Radeon R7 series video card, one called R7 265.

That's what the folks at VR-Zone say anyway, and we have no reason to doubt the veracity of the report just yet.

Although, granted, the information on the card is pretty scarce, beyond the chip configuration similar to the Radeon HD 7850.

Apparently, the card has 1,024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, owing to the Curacao GPU (the same used in R9 270 and 270X). It's a surprisingly strong choice for the R7 line, compared to the Bonaire (R7 260X).

The GPU/memory clocks should be of 900 MHz / 4.8 GHz, and the price of $149 - 159 / €149 - 159.