Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 

Basemark GPU Vulkan is planned to focus on “relevant Vulkan API performance tests as opposed to theoretical workloads.

Being November, I expect that something came up, which isn't too surprising as Microsoft seems to have similar issues with DirectX 12.

While past updates to DirectX have focused on new rendering effects like tessellation and more realistic shaders, DirectX 12 is an attempt to dramatically reduce driver overhead and get PC gaming closer to console levels of efficiency by learning some lessons from AMD’s Mantle API.

Consoles have very narrow hardware profiles, but the hardware abstraction layer in DirectX slows things down.

The majority of users who do not play any sort of graphical game can get by on just integrated graphics alone whether they are from AMD or Intel.

Intel is the volume king here, even though their integrated solutions are not as powerful as AMD APUs for graphics, but by the market share it appears that people are choosing CPU power and efficiency over GPU power for most devices.

It is no doubt that MSI has come a long way in the development of high-end motherboards for the desktop PC market.

The MSI X99S XPOWER AC is featured in MSI’s flagship XPOWER Overclocking product brand which is aimed at overclockers and enthusiasts who demand nothing less than the best.