14 DAY TRIAL // As I remarked the other day, Advanced Micro Devices has created a new graphics card, or rather rebranded an older one into the Radeon R7 collection.
The new video card is called Radeon R7 265 and “raises the performance bar for this class of product by 25%.”
Considering its price of $149 / €109, that claim may very well be true. After all, the newcomer does have 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (256-bit memory interface in the GPU).
Also, the 28nm GPU holds 1024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, and 32 ROPs.
AMD didn't mention the clocks in its short press announcement, but from what we can gather, they are of 900 MHz for the GPU (925 MHz Boost) and 5.6 GHz for the memory.
Sapphire, XFX, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, HIS and PowerColor should launch own-brand Radeon R7 256 cards over the next few days.
Updated, Feb 14, 2014: I added the official clocks as AMD stated them. The memory works at 5.6 GHz.