The quality is there and he has a good mix of everything. He just needs one video to get picked up by the algorithm and he'll be set. Just a matter of time I think. He's a great content creator.
His videos have a lots of views when the topic was about old (budget) hardware. He needs to keep these videos coming and he'll get there eventually. I found him, more will come.
An impressive showing! I didn't expect Elden Ring to run without the disappearing characters and I certainly didn't expect it to hold 30 fps in Halo Infinite! What's even more surprising is that you found one for so little.
just binge all your videos. extremely impressed. like ahoy but for pc hardware. well researched and professionally presented. you are criminally under exposed in the youtube algorithm. you deserve more views and at least 100k subs.
I remember I had the Gigabyte Windforce variant of the R7 260X. It was a nice and cool GPU, served me good for about 2,5 years before I switched to an EVGA GTX 1070 SC not even a month after it launched and that was a massive upgrade in every possible way. That 1070 unfortunately died on me back in late March, got myself a used Zotac RTX 3080 AMP Holo and I'm really liking it. Seeing this video, it's like going down the memory lane considering how the R7 260X manages to hold even 9 years later. It managed to surprise me real well with some games back then compared to my friends then GTX 660 Ti.
It's pretty amazing how good this old card performs Iceberg. I don't own this GPU but have its little brother the HD 7770 2 gig ddr5 (still surprised of its performance) Love your video man! Keep up the great work!
One of my favourite card designs along with the XFX 7970 and still an ok little budget card for someone who just wants to play a couple of casual titles for £20/£30. FSR coming handy as always! Great video, note on Elden ring I really don’t get it lol it does nothing for me 😅🙏🏼
I never expected this card to perform this well! I had one paired with a Core i7-930, and they were actually quite well matched. It doesn't enjoy playing DiRT Rally (original) at 1680x1050 Medium or High very much, and so I upgraded to a GTX 1060. Glad to see this card still kicking butt today, even if it didn't meet my requirements in 2020.
I mean, Radeon cards naming itself is already confusing between 2010-2018. For example, they planned RX 5800 5800XT 5900, and such. But never see light of the day. And then RX 5500 actually better than RX 6500, same thing with RX 5500XT better than 6500XT. Like how's that even possible a newer card perform worse than its predecessor.
AMD did this before The 6850 and 6870 were slower than the 5850 and 5870 because their real successors were the 6950 and 6970. The 5970 was a dual GPU card
This video made my day. A well made video on many new games running on this fine wine card. 2gb r7 260x is about USD 50 here. I noticed 3 games where the gpu temperature runs below 70C. Might be a bottleneck other than gpu (maybe gpu memory? ). Just a taught, since the price is on the budget side, why don't try to sqeeze every single drop of power out of it? I see the last two games are overclocked. Anyways, Keep up with the good videos.
Interestingly enough, the HD7790 (260X) is the world's first GPU to natively support DirectX 12 and happens to be the second most powerful GPU to feature 1GB of vRAM (only behind the HD7850 and slightly ahead of the 750Ti). I just find it rather interesting, that's all!
Elden Ring DX12 requirements are a joke. The game by default wants DX12 Feature Level 12_0. But it's just a BS spec check. There is a mod out there that bypasses this check and the game actually runs just fine on DX12 Feature Level 11_0. So this means Maxwell v1 (GTX 750), Kepler and possibly even Fermi. Also GCN 1 GPUs, given those are DX12 Feature Level 11_1.
I’ve thought about overclocking my 480 and doing a “580” video, but decided it wasn’t worth the inevitable arguments that would start! Maybe when I can get an 8GB for under £100 I’ll pick one up.
@@theburger_king it's the exact same card. A 580 is literally just a 480 with an OC. If you compared two cards with the same frame buffer size and the same core and memory speeds, you'd get the exact same performance.
@@theburger_king lol, I guess so! The only real thing to bear in mind with those cards is that the 4GB cards have slower memory than the 8GB ones (7GHz vs 8GHz.) Not a huge deal, but you'll often see maybe 5% or so lower performance for the 4GB cards, even when you're not VRAM limited.
I used a R series card until recently and for the games I play it was actually fine, mostly indie or less demanding titles. Mine had a black screen issue, though. I never could fix it and after some research it turned out to be a driver issue that AMD never solved, apparently. Decent cards still, better than you'd think.
I have the 1gb version on a PC with i3 7100 and 8gb ram Fh4 plays very well (almost 60fps) at low settings 1080p, but Fh5 with low settings drops to 25-30fps So I use 720p with TAA on and I get 40+fps, little blurry but 40fps are much better than 30fps Do you thing that is a big problem the 1gb of RAM? You said something about 3rd part drivers, do I have to search, worth it?
Re: VRAM Some games react badly to low VRAM amounts. Either they load textures into RAM or page file (COD Warzone is a prime example of this just looking awful), some don’t allow you to make settings changes (RDR2 comes to mind). I wouldn’t upgrade a 1GB to a 2GB of the same card, but people shopping for a 260x will have a slightly better time with the 2GB version. Re: drivers Can NimeZ drivers revive old Radeon GPUs? | AMD GCN 1, 2 & 3 tested czcams.com/video/mBMovvUBNPw/video.html
@@IcebergTech thank you for your answer, I got really good bargain with 500gb ssd + 1tb hd(and the rest I wrote before), for only 150€. Unfortunately later I saw with gpuz that the card is a 1gb version, ok I am not going to cry cause I am planning to buy some used 1650 super or new Rx6500xt, but I like to tweak so I will try these drivers Thank you again for your time, great video
@@ProYamYamPC maybe they were still drivers! I got my r9 290x tri-x used now 4 years ago for 100 euros and then I even bought a second one (again for 100 euros) to make a possible x-fire. so I also allowed myself to make some changes to significantly improve the dissipation of the VRMs, but from the top of the pcb. I'll put you a link in the next comment if you're curious to see the finished work
@@ProYamYamPC I know I'm 3 months late, but AMD has open source drivers, where I believe modders and stuff will create their own drivers for cards, it may be worth giving those a try.
Just realized something. God of war have a very low overhead in FSR 2.0 compared to other games. Vega 7 or R7 260x should be negative scaling at a gpu below RX 580.
I honestly appreciate how Halo destroys its graphics to allow low end systems to try run so its atleast a playable experience, thats what Low settings is supposet to do IMO most low end gamers don't care about graphics as long as they can get away with playable experience
Heres the thing R7 260X is DX12 compatible as is the R7 360 its bigger brother however the R7 370 is DX11 only because that was based on the previous gen GCN chipset its really weird what supports DX12 because the ancent R7 260X does the R7 260 none X doesnt
if you crazy enough, you could probably make 4gb variant of this gpu, and i don't mean getting fire pro and rebranding it i was able to reaserch that both dell and asus used higher density gddr5 chips with oland gpu's and both oland and bonaire have the same memory bus, and atombios vram config version so i am 90% sure that you just need to transplant memory config table from asus r7 240 4gb gddr5 to a bios from your 260x and get 4 8gigabit memory chips and swap those mad science style it probably work best with 1gb variant because those are dinosaurs it should become slightly slower rx460?
You make such good videos but yet only have 3k subs, a shame.
The quality is there and he has a good mix of everything. He just needs one video to get picked up by the algorithm and he'll be set. Just a matter of time I think. He's a great content creator.
His videos have a lots of views when the topic was about old (budget) hardware. He needs to keep these videos coming and he'll get there eventually.
I found him, more will come.
No vanishing character models, very impressive showing from the R7 260X.
An impressive showing! I didn't expect Elden Ring to run without the disappearing characters and I certainly didn't expect it to hold 30 fps in Halo Infinite! What's even more surprising is that you found one for so little.
I bought one for 18 pounds at cex recently its in the Genshin impact machine i bought for the Gf
I found it for roughly 16 bucks a few years ago.
just binge all your videos. extremely impressed. like ahoy but for pc hardware. well researched and professionally presented. you are criminally under exposed in the youtube algorithm. you deserve more views and at least 100k subs.
Thanks, I love Ahoy's videos and find the comparison very flattering!
I remember I had the Gigabyte Windforce variant of the R7 260X. It was a nice and cool GPU, served me good for about 2,5 years before I switched to an EVGA GTX 1070 SC not even a month after it launched and that was a massive upgrade in every possible way. That 1070 unfortunately died on me back in late March, got myself a used Zotac RTX 3080 AMP Holo and I'm really liking it.
Seeing this video, it's like going down the memory lane considering how the R7 260X manages to hold even 9 years later. It managed to surprise me real well with some games back then compared to my friends then GTX 660 Ti.
My first gpu, so good memories from this gpu
It still work btw, great video
It's pretty amazing how good this old card performs Iceberg. I don't own this GPU but have its little brother the HD 7770 2 gig ddr5 (still surprised of its performance) Love your video man! Keep up the great work!
AMD product? Well here I am once again. Lol
Good vid as always brother.
One of my favourite card designs along with the XFX 7970 and still an ok little budget card for someone who just wants to play a couple of casual titles for £20/£30. FSR coming handy as always! Great video, note on Elden ring I really don’t get it lol it does nothing for me 😅🙏🏼
i am amazed it gets almost the same fps as i get with an RX560 2GB
Which should not be the case. 260X should be slower than 7850/460 whereas 560 is faster than 7870.
I never expected this card to perform this well! I had one paired with a Core i7-930, and they were actually quite well matched. It doesn't enjoy playing DiRT Rally (original) at 1680x1050 Medium or High very much, and so I upgraded to a GTX 1060. Glad to see this card still kicking butt today, even if it didn't meet my requirements in 2020.
I mean, Radeon cards naming itself is already confusing between 2010-2018.
For example, they planned RX 5800 5800XT 5900, and such. But never see light of the day.
And then RX 5500 actually better than RX 6500, same thing with RX 5500XT better than 6500XT. Like how's that even possible a newer card perform worse than its predecessor.
*Laughs in Nvidia FX Series*
AMD did this before
The 6850 and 6870 were slower than the 5850 and 5870 because their real successors were the 6950 and 6970. The 5970 was a dual GPU card
This video made my day. A well made video on many new games running on this fine wine card. 2gb r7 260x is about USD 50 here. I noticed 3 games where the gpu temperature runs below 70C. Might be a bottleneck other than gpu (maybe gpu memory? ). Just a taught, since the price is on the budget side, why don't try to sqeeze every single drop of power out of it? I see the last two games are overclocked. Anyways, Keep up with the good videos.
I knew it! Such a cool lil card keep doing videos on theese
Crazy to see the card I got back in 2013 for $120 to still be so effective in modern day gaming. Good investment on my part.
Interestingly enough, the HD7790 (260X) is the world's first GPU to natively support DirectX 12 and happens to be the second most powerful GPU to feature 1GB of vRAM (only behind the HD7850 and slightly ahead of the 750Ti).
I just find it rather interesting, that's all!
I’m getting a hand me r7260x as a massive upgrade for my current gaming rig. #budgetgamer
Elden Ring DX12 requirements are a joke.
The game by default wants DX12 Feature Level 12_0. But it's just a BS spec check. There is a mod out there that bypasses this check and the game actually runs just fine on DX12 Feature Level 11_0. So this means Maxwell v1 (GTX 750), Kepler and possibly even Fermi. Also GCN 1 GPUs, given those are DX12 Feature Level 11_1.
i have tested this and the game crashes frequently on GCN 1 cards sadly
This was my old card, used it for 2 years and served me well. Purchased 1050Ti around 2018 for 150$ then sold the R7 260x for 60$
I love your videos especially your gpu videos! Do you think you’ll ever do a rx 580 video?
I’ve thought about overclocking my 480 and doing a “580” video, but decided it wasn’t worth the inevitable arguments that would start! Maybe when I can get an 8GB for under £100 I’ll pick one up.
@@IcebergTech that’s probably a good idea but another suggestion is doing a 480 oc vs 580 video to see how well they compare
@@theburger_king it's the exact same card. A 580 is literally just a 480 with an OC. If you compared two cards with the same frame buffer size and the same core and memory speeds, you'd get the exact same performance.
@@jasonandrews7355 I’ve been lied to my entire life
@@theburger_king lol, I guess so! The only real thing to bear in mind with those cards is that the 4GB cards have slower memory than the 8GB ones (7GHz vs 8GHz.) Not a huge deal, but you'll often see maybe 5% or so lower performance for the 4GB cards, even when you're not VRAM limited.
The reason why you couldn't enter BIOS with the R7 260X is because it lacks UEFI support, as can be seen in GPU-Z under Radeon logo.
Thanks!
yep! I know that modded UEFI bioses for some non UEFI GPUs are out there
I used a R series card until recently and for the games I play it was actually fine, mostly indie or less demanding titles. Mine had a black screen issue, though. I never could fix it and after some research it turned out to be a driver issue that AMD never solved, apparently. Decent cards still, better than you'd think.
I have the 1gb version on a PC with i3 7100 and 8gb ram
Fh4 plays very well (almost 60fps) at low settings 1080p, but Fh5 with low settings drops to 25-30fps
So I use 720p with TAA on and I get 40+fps, little blurry but 40fps are much better than 30fps
Do you thing that is a big problem the 1gb of RAM?
You said something about 3rd part drivers, do I have to search, worth it?
Re: VRAM
Some games react badly to low VRAM amounts. Either they load textures into RAM or page file (COD Warzone is a prime example of this just looking awful), some don’t allow you to make settings changes (RDR2 comes to mind). I wouldn’t upgrade a 1GB to a 2GB of the same card, but people shopping for a 260x will have a slightly better time with the 2GB version.
Re: drivers
Can NimeZ drivers revive old Radeon GPUs? | AMD GCN 1, 2 & 3 tested
czcams.com/video/mBMovvUBNPw/video.html
@@IcebergTech thank you for your answer, I got really good bargain with 500gb ssd + 1tb hd(and the rest I wrote before), for only 150€. Unfortunately later I saw with gpuz that the card is a 1gb version, ok I am not going to cry cause I am planning to buy some used 1650 super or new Rx6500xt, but I like to tweak so I will try these drivers
Thank you again for your time, great video
This card is actually amazing for what it is
I legit just got this exact card to test myself too lmao.
Great video mate! I have the R9 290 on test this week and it's been an impressive card so far. Pretty similar to the RX 480!
hello, I use a r9 290x tri-x to which I applied some OC. In tests like superposition I get more points than a rx 580!
@@MD_il_microcanale I wish AMD carried on with the driver support. They are still relevant GPUs and they perform really well!
@@ProYamYamPC maybe they were still drivers! I got my r9 290x tri-x used now 4 years ago for 100 euros and then I even bought a second one (again for 100 euros) to make a possible x-fire. so I also allowed myself to make some changes to significantly improve the dissipation of the VRMs, but from the top of the pcb. I'll put you a link in the next comment if you're curious to see the finished work
@@ProYamYamPC czcams.com/video/8xHMz9R9Skg/video.html
simple but effective
@@ProYamYamPC I know I'm 3 months late, but AMD has open source drivers, where I believe modders and stuff will create their own drivers for cards, it may be worth giving those a try.
Just realized something. God of war have a very low overhead in FSR 2.0 compared to other games. Vega 7 or R7 260x should be negative scaling at a gpu below RX 580.
I honestly appreciate how Halo destroys its graphics to allow low end systems to try run so its atleast a playable experience, thats what Low settings is supposet to do IMO most low end gamers don't care about graphics as long as they can get away with playable experience
An Intel had 4400 gets 20 fps at maximum performance settings in rocket league .
Oooh I have an r7360 on an Intel 4460?
Also a 6600xt on a 5700x about to upgrade that to a 6950xt and transfer the 6600 to the Intel board
Thx
Heres the thing R7 260X is DX12 compatible as is the R7 360 its bigger brother however the R7 370 is DX11 only because that was based on the previous gen GCN chipset its really weird what supports DX12 because the ancent R7 260X does the R7 260 none X doesnt
r7 260x and r7 360 are the same chip
Is it worth tu use the dedicated r7 260x or just keep the vega 8 from 5700G with16 gb ram 3200 hz?
What results would be if R7 260x would work in Crossfire mode?
if you crazy enough, you could probably make 4gb variant of this gpu, and i don't mean getting fire pro and rebranding it
i was able to reaserch that both dell and asus used higher density gddr5 chips with oland gpu's and both oland and bonaire have the same memory bus, and atombios vram config version
so i am 90% sure that you just need to transplant memory config table from asus r7 240 4gb gddr5 to a bios from your 260x and get 4 8gigabit memory chips and swap those mad science style
it probably work best with 1gb variant because those are dinosaurs
it should become slightly slower rx460?
You should make a overclocking section on your videos
How much watts consumes this gpu?
Hope my RTX 3060 will manage 1440p at decent FPS for the next 5 years.
I just got one of these cards for $22 off of ebay.
im still using sapphire rx 260x oc 2gb model lol
2:35 It probably doesn't have UEFI suppport.
I actually still have a lightly used ASUS R7 260X in my closet. I came to this video to see if it was worth trying to sell. Probably not though lol.
Eh, dunno, just bought one for 40 bucks yesterday, as I had no dedicated gpu and this was still better than my integrated graphics.
are you colour blind?