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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...

I still haven't found anything that disputes the statements in this article. Accepting the notion that Polaris was originally intended to be AMDs next gen top of the line card, then everything Kyle has written has been supported by the facts as we know them so far. I expect the reviews to...

Looking forward to seeing some testing on non-AMD Gaming Evolved titles that feature DirectX 12 so that we can rule out some of those vendor specific optimizations. Too bad Rise of the Tomb Raider had such poor DirectX 12 implementation, because that may have offered an alternate viewpoint...

Well again, Deus Ex is a AMD Gaming Evolved title. But DOOM, now that one's interesting. It is well known that Id and Bethesda prefer Nvidia hardware, even to a point of antipathy (anyone remember Rage?). That may be the first time we get a different result out of DirectX 12. If the results...

Sorry, meant the Star Swarm demo was developed by Oxide as a showcase for Mantle. Thanks for catching that one.

So little mention that Ashes of the Singularity is straight out of the AMD development loop. Prior to this implementation, the engine was used by Oxide for the Star Swarm demo as the very first showcase for AMDs Mantle technology. Predictably, Ashes of the Singularity indeed does favor AMD...

I would definitely be interested in seeing some Corsair graphics cards. With that great Corsair cooling attached, it would be a sure hit.

1. Absolutely. I use Corsair throughout my rig, and would trust their GPU coolers. 2. Definitely, see #1. With a reference cooler currently, I would love to upgrade in terms of heat and noise.

That ASIC score is outstanding for a GK110 chip... easily the highest I have heard. That no doubt played a big role in the overclocking abilities. I wonder if that's Asus binning the chips or if it was just luck of the draw. I'm curious if the idle voltage was lower on that chip. Usually a...

Galaxy has been coming on strong for the past few years. I'd be really excited to have one of their cards in my machine!

In the Skyrim image quality comparisons, it never gets mentioned that only Nvidia cards can force Ambient Occlusion, which makes for much richer shadows and affects everything in the game. Without AO, the game just looks flat and makes for a much different experience on AMD cards in terms of...