Sapphire R7-260X Review
Testing
Testing, or the fun bit as I like to call it, is going to be a bit different in this review. Rather than putting this card into a super expensive system, filled with expensive components, I am going to show you what this card can do in a more basic system. Hopefully offering a more representative view to what performance you will get.
I will be using my own main PC for testing this graphics card, and before you laugh I know it’s in need of a few upgrades.
| Processor | Intel i3-2100 |
| Memory | Geil 8GB (2x4GB) |
| Primary HDD | 120GB OCZ Agility 3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair TX550M |
| OS | Windows 7 |
To put the card through its paces, we used a number of benchmarking tools as well as some of the latest games, whilst observing how they played and noting down any issues.
For the games that we could, we used the built in benchmarking facilities to observe how the game played, running the game at the maximum settings that we could achieve, I used the latest non-beta drivers from AMD’s website, and a clean installation of the host operating system – which is always fun to do isn’t it.
Hitman Absolution
Hitman Absolution is an action-adventure game, where the player once again takes on the role of Agent 47, a Hitman employed by the International Contracts Agency. I used the built in benchmarking tool with the Ultra pre-set selected running at 1920×1080 and no other options changed.
Metro Last Light
Metro: Last Light is a single-player first-person shooter video game with survival horror and stealth elements, developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games. Once again the built in benchmark was used at Very High settings at a resolution of 1920×1080.
This time round, the Sapphire R7-260X was a tested a bit more strenuously whilst the average remained fairly playable, it occasionally dipped to just 10 FPS although it rarely stayed that way.
