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Tag Archives: Benchmarks

Thomas Ryan
Feb 24, 2016

Looking at DirectX 12 Performance in Ashes of the Singularity

So fast, so clean, and so mean…

In this article we’ll be using Oxide Game’s upcoming title Ashes of the Singularity (AotS) to compare performance between Microsoft’s DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 APIs
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Thomas Ryan
Jul 10, 2015

Looking at the OpenCL Performance of AMD’s R9 Fury X

Computing the compute potential of Fiji…

In this article we’ll take a look and see how Fiji performs in a variety of OpenCL benchmarks.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 24, 2015

AMD’s Radeon Goes Premium with the Fury X

Fiji and HBM are finally here…

The launch of AMD’s Fury X is easily one of the most anticipated events of this year. Coming on the heels of the launch of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980Ti which set a new benchmark for high-end value AMD’s Fury X …
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 19, 2014

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s R9 270X

Part 3: Mantle on mainstream hardware…

In Part 3 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 18, 2014

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s A10-7850K

Part 2: Mantle on entry level hardware…

In Part 2 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 17, 2014
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Mantle Showdown: AMD’s Radeon R9 290X

Part 1: How does Mantle perform at the high-end?

In this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Thomas Ryan
Jul 31, 2014

AMD Launches the A10-7800 Desktop APU

Filling out the rest of the lineup…

AMD is today launching another APU, the A10-7800.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 21, 2014

AMD’s Radeon Dual Graphics: Looking at Laptops

Dual Graphics is finally not a drawback…

A long time ago just after AMD launched its first Trinity chips a friend of mine purchased an AMD Radeon Dual Graphics enabled laptop.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 20, 2014

AMD’s Radeon Dual Graphics: Looking at the Desktop

Dual Graphics is still the redheaded step child of the Radeon family…

With the launch of the Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver AMD brought frame-pacing to PC’s with desktop and mobile Radeon Dual Graphics configurations.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 23, 2013
1

AMD Radeon R9 290X Review

Welcome to Hawaii…

Nearly a month after the Hawaii event the launch day of AMD’s Radeon R9 290X graphics card is finally here.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 4, 2013
2

AMD Brings Richland to the Desktop: The A10-6800K

It’s amazing what a bit of fine-tuning can produce…

The A10-6800k is the top chip in AMD’s updated APU product stack and that’s the chip we will be reviewing today.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 3, 2013
2

Intel’s Core i7-4770K: Desktop Haswell

Holding the line on CPU performance while upping their GPU prowess…

Today we bring you our testing of Intel’s 4th Generation Core Processors, codenamed “Haswell”. The chip that Intel sampled us with was the Core i7-4770K.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 29, 2013
1

How does the Nvidia GTX 770 do against the AMD HD7970 GHz?

16 games benchmarked for your pleasure

Running around Taipei leads one to run in to very interesting people with interesting numbers like the upcoming GTX 770 benchmarks.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 5, 2012

AMD’s Bulldozer core compared with Piledriver

Core vs core vs the promised numbers

Fortunately for AMD, after reviewing both the Piledriver based A10-5800K and the Piledriver infused FX-8350 over the past few months, I can safely say that Piledriver is faster than Bulldozer.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 19, 2012
1

What good are benchmarks when a PC is ‘good enough’?

Modern problems for modern systems

With each new chip that comes out, benchmarks become less and less relevant, and are now almost pointless.
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