14 DAY TRIAL // AMD officially released the Radeon R7 265 Graphics Card the other day, so here we are now, gazing upon the custom-designed model from ASUS.
The OEM maintained the clocks of 900 MHz / 925 MHz for the GPU, and 5.600 for the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
It also couldn't really change the insides of the GPU: 1,024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2560bit VRAM interface.
What it could do, though, was install a new cooler. Well, not a new one since DirectCU II has been used in a whole bunch of other cards already, but a different one from the reference.
It can keep the circuits and chip 20% cooler, and the fans are three times quieter.
Super Alloy Power components were used for the PCB as well (improved longevity).
The ASUS R7 265 DirectCU II ships with the GPU Tweak software for around $149 / €109 or slightly more.