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That's exactly my point. How do we know how well games are coded? Isn't it possible that AotS and Hitman are also poorly coded, but in a way that appears to show favoritism? People attribute the AMD advantage in these games to DirectX 12, but those game engines have both strongly favored...

And do you have any games that are not straight out of the AMD Gaming Evolved program to compare to?

Why do people seem to ignore the actual performance numbers on ROTR? The GTX 1060 is faster under DirectX 12 with the same lead over the 480 as it has in DirectX 11. The 480 gains nothing in DirectX 12 in that non-AMD game. But fire up one of the AMD titles (all the other ones listed), and...

This would have also been a common statement in regards to Mantle in BF4.

The part about people looking at two long-standing AMD titles (Hitman and Ashes of the Singularity) and declaring AMD the winner in "DirectX 12" is misleading. The only thing that can be definitively stated at this point is that AMD cards have an Async Compute advantage in AMD developed titles...

If Vulkan truly does favor AMD cards, then I'm afraid we won't see much of it. With only 20% of the GPU market running AMD cards, an API favoring such a small minority is unlikely to be widely adopted. It grew out of Mantle and will suffer that same fate of irrelevance if it has an unequal...

Regarding the DOOM Vulkan results, here's what the reviewer at Tom's Hardware had to report: Quote: "ID said, that they optimzed the render path ONLY for AMD yet and that the Nvidia implemention will follow later. How we can test a half-done game without the optimized driver? Any question...

All these comparisons to the RX480. If this card is faster than a GTX 980 then that is Fury/FuryX territory. Those cards are going for $400-$500. The entire top stack of AMD's lineup has been rendered irrelevant, and the mid-range is a tough sell. Are even more drastic AMD price cuts on...

The full "leaked" specs of the GTX 1060 have been posted all over the web: GeForce GTX 1060 Launch Imminent + Leaked Specs GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 ASIC: GP106-400-A1 and GP106-300-A1 16 nm FinFET process 120W TDP 1280 CUDA cores, spread across 10 streaming multiprocessors 80 TMUs and 48...

Nvidia has their target in sight. No way do they price their cards in any way that gives the RX480 some sort of advantage. Even if they do cost more than the 480, that is because: 1) They perform better, 2) They still easily outsell the 480, even at a higher price point. Nvidia's ace in hole...

It's tempting to go back over the 62 pages of this thread to see how many times Kyle was insulted and demeaned for telling the truth, here and elsewhere across the web. Anyone buying the reference RX480 in its first days on the market should have heeded this report. Kyle you're officially...

Newegg has a reference Powercolor RX 480 and the Asus GTX 970 Strix both at $240.... hmm, decisions, decisions. Yeah right.

AMD has 24 games featured in its Gaming Evolved program. Featured Games Nvidia has 37 pages of games featured in its The Way Its Meant To Be Played/Gameworks program. Games | GeForce

Actually, Tom's Hardware was able to demonstrate that AMD used their specially binned chips (I.e. "cherry-picked") for the initial reviews of the reference 290 series and 7990 cards. Sidebar: Variability Turns Into A Graphics Card Crapshoot - AMD Radeon R9 290 Review: Fast And $400, But Is It...

Problem is, if all AMD has is pricing for the 480, then that is already a loss. You can get a custom 8GB R9-390 for $250, the exact same price and likely the same performance as a custom 8GB RX 480. And there are custom GTX 970s, right about the same performance level for less than that. If...