3DMark

That we have taken a look at our gaming tests using our Frame Rating metrics and testing methods, we are including a set of tests from more standard benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and the new 3DMark benchmark. 

I consider these tests to be somewhat of a "best case" for all the cards in our comparison.  We aren't using our frame capture system, we aren't measuring frame latency, nothing like that; I think this should give you an idea of graphics performance if each vendor had the best result for each game.

The first thing I noticed with these graphs is the large delta between the R7 265 and the R7 260X. The lower priced card is 22-24% slower in the two 3DMark Fire Strike tests. It is able to match the performance of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 quite easily.  The GTX 650 Ti isn't really in the picture here.  The R9 270 shows a 10-11% performance edge of the R7 265 which pretty much matches what we saw in our real world gaming tests as well.

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