Test System and Methodology
April 2014 Sub $100/$130 GPU Performance Test System
SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 GPUs:
R7-240 2GB Low Profile (DDR3)
R7-240 1GB With Boost
R7-250 1GB With Boost
R7-250 1GB Ultimate
R7-250X 1GB OC
R7-260X 1GB OC
Comparisons:
GeForce GT640 2GB (DDR3)
GeForce GTX 650 1GB OC
GeForce GTX 750 2GB OC
System:
AMD Kaveri APU – A10-7850K
ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer
AMD Radeon R9 Gamer Series DDR3-2400 (16GB)
Dimastech EASYXL Test Bench
Samsung EVO 1TB SSD
Corsair AX860 PSU
Asus 24" 120Hz Display
Razer Black Widow Ultimate Stealth Keyboard
Roccat Kone XTD Mouse
Intel AC-7260 Wireless
Software:
Windows 8.1
AMD Driver: Catalyst 14.4
NVIDIA Driver: 337.50
FRAPS
Steam/Origin
Battlefield 4
Titanfall
Call of Duty Ghosts
League of Legends
DOTA2
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Star Wars: The Old Republic
WildStar
Thief
The test system was built from scratch, a format of the hard drives was performed (NTFS) and then Windows 8.1 was installed. Following the completion of the installation, the chipset and video drivers were installed. All windows updates were then installed as were the latest builds of the benchmarking tools. For each test, the video drivers were set to default quality/optimizations (unless otherwise stated).
Good Benchmarking Practice
Where possible, each benchmark was performed three times and the median result for each resolution/setting is shown in the tables. All applications had their latest patches applied and all hardware features the latest BIOS/Firmware.
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