9 Oct 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon R7 265 Crossfire GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2019. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 411 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Running at 1080p this card gets a playable frame rate from Red Dead Redemption 2 with 33 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Cyberpunk 2077 which returns a weak 4 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Ghost Recon Breakpoint which we saw getting a playable 32 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Red Dead Redemption 2 which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 66 FPS, Medium: 52 FPS, High: 35 FPS and Ultra: 25 FPS. Next we have Cyberpunk 2077 running on Radeon R7 265 Crossfire which gets L: 8FPS, M: 6FPS, H: 4FPS, U: 3FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Ghost Recon Breakpoint gets L: 64FPS, M: 51FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 24FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire is in need of some graphics adjustments to get some stability, which means its not an ideal gaming resolution for this GPU.

How many years will the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire in your PC? This Radeon R7 265 Crossfire card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 79% better and can run 922 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon R7 265 Crossfire then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB as this is better than 724 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 32% better performance as well.