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    News AMD shows off DX12-related rendering advances that make game engines more efficient and less dependent on the CPU

    You are right. It is common to define performance as "amount of work" / time (e.g. here, slide 7), W/t. When two methods (m1 and m2) perform the same task in times t1 and t2, relative performance of m1 w.r.t. m2 is m1/m2 = (W/t1) / (W/t2) = t2/t1. So, you can just divide the larger time by the...
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    AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review: Sapphire Tri-X Overclocked

    It appears that this was just a mistake in settings and other users could not reproduce the problem, see http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1041717506&postcount=252. AMD has had image quality problems in its texture filter for a long time. In the Radeon 5000 series there were some obvious...
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    Best Graphics Cards For The Money: October 2014 (Archive)

    I have found the image quality of some Radeons, such as my R9 280X, somewhat disappointing. For instance, look carefully at the carpet in the following image from Assassin's Creed 3: http://i.imgur.com/15zCw6f.jpg For comparison, here is an image produced by an old Nvidia Fermi...