Sapphire R7 265 Power Consumption

Power and temperature benchmarks.

Sapphire r7 265 power consumption.

The sapphire dual x. The gtx 750 ti s gm107. Marking the introduction of its maxwell architecture nvidia has targeted amd s 150 radeon r7 265 with the new geforce gtx 750 ti. Power consumption results of other cards on this page are measurements of the respective reference design.

Windows 7 aero sitting at the desktop 1280x1024 32 bit with all windows closed and drivers installed. Amd radeon r9 280x r9 270x and r7 260x. The same as the 270. During gaming the card emits quite a lot of noise.

In idle the sapphire r7 265 offers amazing noise levels that make the card virtually inaudible in any case. We have with us a sapphire branded radeon r7 265 2 gb graphics card. The recommended psu is a 600w or greater model with two 75 watt pcie power connectors. The core is clocked to 925 mhz and the memory runs at 5 60 ghz gddr5 effective both of which are higher than the 860 mhz core and 4 60 ghz memory the hd 7850 originally launched with.

Old gpus new names by chris angelini igor wallossek 08 october 2013 amd is introducing a handful of new model names today based on existing gpus. 1x dvi 1x hdmi 1x vga. Given the radeon r7 265 s curaçao gpu and clock rates we expect the card to look a lot like amd s radeon r9 270 in our power consumption measurements. This time with the radeon r7 265.

At us 149 the r7 265 is amd s attempt to patch up the gap between the r7 260x and r9 270. Our results were based on the following tests. The amd radeon r7 265 r7 260 review. Card left to warm up in idle mode until power draw was stable.

Being a dual slot card the amd radeon r7 250 does not require any additional power connector its power draw is rated at 65 w maximum. It s certainly not unbearable but far from quiet. Power consumption temperatures. The sapphire dual x r9 270 and sapphire dual x r7 265 are pictured above and below.

3 rd tier parts rarely see a reduction in power consumption so this is. With 36 dba it s only marginally quieter than the gtx titan or gtx 780 ti which are just so much faster.