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.

Indeed, the Radeon R7 265 and R9 270 register almost exactly the same power use under a graphics load.

We're not testing a reference design from AMD, so the thermal measurements are more tied to Sapphire's Dual-X thermal solution than any other variable. In other words, other Radeon R7 265s will almost certainly demonstrate different behavior when they're fully utilized.
As far as this card goes, though, thermal performance is exceptional. Even during Battlefield 4 gameplay, it never crested 60 °C. Why is this so significant? Because the Radeon R7 265 employs PowerTune with Boost, maintaining 925 MHz necessitates favorable temperatures. A cooler that lets the GPU heat up is going to hurt performance as the card shifts down a notch to 900 MHz. In the Sapphire card's case, we couldn't get it to budget from 925 MHz, even with a long FurMark-based stress test.
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- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Results: Battlefield 4
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- Results: Metro: Last Light
- Results: BioShock Infinite
- Results: Grid 2
- Power And Temperature Benchmarks
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AMD does not set the retail price and neither does Nvidia, it is entirely up to the board partners and retailers what is charged. If you have a complaint about the price of these boards then moan at whoever you would buy it off, they are the ones screwing you for the cash. AMD is not making more profit from it they are.
I've honestly had enough of everyone bitching about AMD for the price of their boards, i'm sure they are just so upset that they made such an awesome compute capable GPU that they cant cant make them fast enough to keep the price down. It must be such a depressing situation for them to be in *rolls eyes*
AMD does not set the retail price and neither does Nvidia, it is entirely up to the board partners and retailers what is charged. If you have a complaint about the price of these boards then moan at whoever you would buy it off, they are the ones screwing you for the cash. AMD is not making more profit from it they are.
I've honestly had enough of everyone bitching about AMD for the price of their boards, i'm sure they are just so upset that they made such an awesome compute capable GPU that they cant cant make them fast enough to keep the price down. It must be such a depressing situation for them to be in *rolls eyes*
Exactly -- it's the retailers that are the problem -- figure Newegg has to cover the market fluctuations in the Bitcoin market now as well, which is the main reason for the demand on the 290s, since they are now taking Bitcoin for payment and the extra $100-$150 increase in the market price of the cards helps cover the loss in the exchange rate of the coins from day to day so they still make their profit margin.
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AMD is still getting the same $ for the parts they are shipping to the manufacturers of the cards. It is the manufacturers and retailers that are increasing their prices and limiting the availability.
Yes, if it makes it to market at $150.
Nope - it is more the bitcoin miners buying up as many of the high end cards as they can get their hands on to mine more coins to buy more cards with causing the price increases at the moment - once the bitcoin market settles down and the price of the coins stabilizes there will be a flood of used cards available bringing the price way down but for now the high end cards are in short supply and thus the mid range cards are now increasing as well since those that would normally buy the higher end cards are being priced out and the supply is limited so they are now buying 2 mid level cards for crossfire setups rather than a single high end card they can not get so the mid level cards are also seeing higher demand in the short run.