Radeon R7 250XE 

More broadly, Infoword is reporting that KB3004394 is also being blamed as the culprit behind certain issues affecting Windows Defender, Task Manager, and other software.

At this point this looks like the update only affects a small number of systems – Windows 8 is not affected, and even then most Windows 7 systems appear to be fine – but Microsoft has not taken any chances and has pulled the update.

With the Rogue USCs implementing a modern shader pipeline, there’s no innate weakness to the design that requires correction.

It should be noted that these numbers do not hold power consumption equal – higher utilization means transistors doing more work and burning energy more often – so real-world performance gains in power/heat limited scenarios would not be as great.

On the GPU front, NVIDIA just released the Maxwell based GTX 980 and 970, as well as the mobile counterparts which have shown impressive performance, and efficiency.

The Average Selling Price (ASP) of CPUs/APUs actually increase sequentially and year-over-year.

Now that it is out, multiple sources are claiming the vendor-supplied benchmarks are exaggerated or simply untrue.

Ironically, the launch of the Radeon R9 295 X2 video card might have lessened that number of benchmarks available for NVIDIA's driver, who knows?