Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB OC 2x DVI Video Card Review

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Heaven

Gigabyte HD7870 Heaven

Unigine Heaven benchmark was first released in October 2009, it is now on the fourth generation of the benchmark. It is a benchmark that tests DirectX 11, the scores provided are 100% based on the GPUs performance. Like most benchmarks, it has presets that can be customized for a specific test. These presets makes it easy to get a good comparison of the results. In addition to providing the FPS it also monitors the GPU temperature and clock; however that we will not be concerned with at this time. With Heavens presets being able to adjusted, they were set to the Ultra quality, Tesselation to Extreme and Anti-aliasing to x8.
Sapphire R7 260X Heaven Chart
Sapphire R7 260X Heaven Overall Chart
Benchmark Results: Heaven shows a significant difference between the higher performing cards and the R7 260X, however the 260X still presents a good score for being an entry level video card.