Monday, March 2nd 2015
Sapphire Rolls Out Radeon R7 260X iCafe OC Graphics Card
Sapphire rolled out the entry-mid range Radeon R7 260X iCafe OC graphics card for casual-gaming PC builds (eg: low-cost Counter Strike gaming kiosks). Pictured below, the card looks rather premium, with its full-length, dual-slot cooler. That is, until you take a peek under its plastic shroud to find a cost-effective fan-heatsink cooling the GPU, with radially-projecting aluminium fins, a copper core base, and an 80 mm fan ventilating it.
The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector; outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI 1.4a, and DisplayPort 1.2a. The card offers a factory-overclock of 1050 MHz core, and an untouched 5.00 GHz memory, against reference clocks of 1000 MHz on the core. Based on the 28 nm "Bonaire" silicon, the R7 260X offers 896 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, and a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory on this card. Expect a $100-ish pricing.
The card draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector; outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI 1.4a, and DisplayPort 1.2a. The card offers a factory-overclock of 1050 MHz core, and an untouched 5.00 GHz memory, against reference clocks of 1000 MHz on the core. Based on the 28 nm "Bonaire" silicon, the R7 260X offers 896 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, and a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory on this card. Expect a $100-ish pricing.
14 Comments on Sapphire Rolls Out Radeon R7 260X iCafe OC Graphics Card
Reminds me of the old MSI 6850 Cyclone PE, but with a shroud.
Yes this card will benefit that market segment really well, also a person like me who plays a lot of eSports title like Dota 2 and CS:GO.
P/S: man it's been a good 9-10 months away from this site.
Smoking is forbidden and some of the icafes designed very stylish.
But what do I know. I'm just a troll.
I saw many of them (and even went to one) during my time in Moscow. There they ranged from high end to basic and old. It really depended on the area of Moscow I was in. There were HEAPS of decent ones around the IBC and Moscow State University.
Nowadays, people play games at home.
And if there is an internet cafe somewhere, I would recommend to try to win clients with something new, not this shitte R7 260 and with state-of-the-art modern games like Crysis 3, Battlefield 4 and more. And of course, Ultra HD and beyond.
:)