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You didn't pay $320. Newegg and Amazon have them for $349. Considerably more than 1800x. Furthermore CPU World shows them for $359 OEM and $370 white box. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-Core i7 i7-8700K.html In fact you don't even have an i7-8700k. If you did then you would...

Hmmm.... just as there is no point to the i7-8700K. Actually even less of a point as it costs considerably more.

8gb video ram ONLY makes a difference if it is needed. Running DX11 gaming benchmarks do not tax a system architecture where 8 gb will offer much of performance increase over 4gb. However as DX12 and Vulkan begin to be better utilized by game studio programmers 8 gb and up will certainly will...

One RX 480 may not but spend $399.98 and 2 RX 480 in Crossfire crushes GTX 1080 in the AOTS DX12 benchmark. AMD Radeon GPU's are scalable! GTX 1080 is also broken in DX12. GTX 1080 despite being 16nm and clocked at 1.6gHz BARELY outperforms Radeon Fury X in AOTS benchmarks. You may recall...

Looks like AMD just stole NVidia's Christmas, AGAIN!!! GTX 1080 is ONLY 13% faster than 28nm R9 Fury X and to get there it must be clocked to 1.6-2.1 gHz despite being a 16nm process. NOT very impressive since R9 clocks at 1.05gHz!!!! Vega with HBM2 AND a 14nm process AND Asynch Compute in...

AMD's new GCN Architecture is optimised to run using DX12 with AMD APU's or CPU's. Since HP is likely putting this R9 380 on an Intel mainboard, the massive benefits that Asynchronous Shaders and Asynchronous Compute Engines will be nullified. Intel CPU's are garbage when running DX12...

Dx12: is it the best friend that AMD has? About a month ago Anandtech ran some extensive 3dMarkv1.5 API Overhead benchmarks. They tested both dGPU and integrated APU's and IGP. http://bit.ly/1GCjLzU Here is an interesting fact. Using DX11 as a baseline to compare the performance...

The performance of this Radeon card when using DX12 is staggering. About 18million draw calls. The best that Intel and nVidia GTX 980 can do is 2 million draws calls with DX11. You can no longer consider DX11 benchmarks when making an intelligent decision regarding dGPU purchase. In fact in...

Hmm. mindless trolls every where. What was running on nVdia silicon was a DEMO. Not DirectX 12. "Microsoft tells us the PC Forza demo "was simply a rendering tech demo to showcase the power and ease of development for DX12. We have no plans to release Forza Motorsport 5, or any other...

Hmmm.... I think that a careful read of what you posted would answer your own question. All that NVidia said was 'they WILL support Mantle...oops DirectX 12..." they didn't say they could support it NOW. A very big difference but what else would you expect them to say? Fuhgettabowddit...

"Microsoft adopts Mantle but calls it DX12 GDC 2014: Completely different because it is not called Mantle, just ask MS PR" http://semiaccurate.com/2014/03/18/microsoft-adopts-mantle-calls-dx12/ How else can AMD announce full support for an API that does not exist yet?

Your analysis and solution is outrageously flawed to the point of bordering on the insanely ludicrous. nVidia takes great pains to protect is CUDA HPC and GPGPU market to the point of not even engaging in any competitive bechmarking. Well now the entire world knows just how bad nVidia GPU...

AMD sales are off but..... It seems that AMD sales are off in first gen Llano and Bobcat. New gen Trinity and even Bulldozer shows growth. But the deficit is only 3.3 million units. Now, consider 5-6 million units for PS4 APU sales and the same for XBOX 720 or whatever sales add to that WiiU...

ZACATE is ATOM SMASHER! Zacate is "ATOM SMASHER" "An Atom 330+nVidia ion combo is able to beat the new CPUs both in terms of Windows 7 performance and 3DMark ’03 tests. In other words, the D510 and the D410 are ahead of their older brothers. In terms of power consumption, the new Atoms...