AMD launched the Radeon R7 265, a mainstream graphics card designed to fill the price gap between the $119 Radeon R7 260X, and the $179 Radeon R9 270. Based on AMD's Pitcairn GPU, the R7 265 is a variant of the Radeon HD 7850, but it has received higher GPU and memory clockspeeds.

The 265 is nearly identical to 270, dropping 4 CUs and leaving 265 at 16 CUs (1024 SPs) but otherwise leaving it unchanged.

Clockspeeds are identical to the 270. 265 gets the same 900MHz base clock and 925MHz boost clock, and meanwhile the memory clock for the card?s 2GB of GDDR5 stands at 5.6GHz.

The 265's "typical board power" stands at 150W.

Specifications
	AMD Radeon R9 270	AMD Radeon R7 265	AMD Radeon R7 260X	AMD Radeon R7 260
Stream Processors	1280	1024	896	768
Texture Units	80	64	56	48
ROPs	32	32	16	16
Core Clock	900MHz	900MHz	?	?
Boost Clock	925MHz	925MHz	1100MHz	1000MHz
Memory Clock	5.6GHz GDDR5	5.6GHz GDDR5	6.5GHz GDDR5	6GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit
VRAM	2GB	2GB	2GB	1GB
FP64	1/16	1/16	1/16	1/16
TrueAudio	No	No	Yes	Yes
Transistor Count	2.8B	2.8B	2.08B	2.08B
Typical Board Power	150W	150W	115W	95W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.1	GCN 1.1
GPU	Pitcairn	Pitcairn	Bonaire	Bonaire
Date	11/13/13	02/13/14	10/11/13	01/14/14
Price	$179	$149	$139	$109

The 265 lacks functionality such as TrueAudio and XDMA that are found on the Bonaire (GCN 1.1) based R7 260X and R7 260.

The Radeon R7 265 starts at US $149.99.