Radeon R7 265 

Maybe 1 or 2 watts higher than expected, idle power consumption is still in the typical range for AMD cards of this generation.

Compared to cards from NVIDIA, these two states consume much more power, though.

Based on old technology, the R7 265 does not bring any improvements in power consumption to the table, which is something NVIDIA is rumored to have worked on a lot with the GTX 750 Ti.

While I wouldn't call it an ideal 1080p card, it still has enough performance for decent gaming at that resolution if you don't mind sacrificing some anti-aliasing or detail levels.

AMD tells us that they expect the Radeon R7 265 to retail at around $150, which is a very competitive price for the card's performance.

The heatsink's base also cools memory chips.

We've recently seen many cards with Elpida chips that didn't overclock well, but Sapphire chose to use Hynix chips to ensure memory on the card can reach decent clock speeds.

The card only reaches 60°C under load, so it would have been very easy for Sapphire to go for a really quiet experience that runs no hotter than 65°C. The card is whisper quiet in non-gaming states, though, which will prove useful to people who also focus on productivity, or media-PC setups.

During gaming, we see power consumption rise to around 100 W, which is, again, typical for cards using the Pitcairn GPU.