Radeon R7 360 896SP 

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.

While the Haswell processors were met with a great response and backed by a variety of overclocking features, the processors didn’t happen to be great at overclocking due to the cheaper application of TIM between the IHS (Internal Heat Spreader) and the Haswell silicon itself which resulted in the heat to remain trapped between the chip due to poor contact.

Team MSI has won the $5000 US prize by claiming the Devil’s Canyon Air/Liquid world record achieving a core clock of 5498 MHz or 5.498 GHz.

It is hard to determine if this is something that gamers will consider a must-have feature and something that developers will feel needs to be included in their games.

The biggest feature of DirectX 11.1 is that it adds native stereoscopic 3D support, which gives native 11.1 applications support for viewing the content via 3D stereoscopic glasses by default, as it is built-in.

SMX's energy efficiency was achieved by increasing its number of CUDA architecture cores by four times, while reducing the clock speed of each core, power-gating parts of the GPU when idle and maximizing the GPU area devoted to parallel-processing cores instead of control logic.

While that card is the king of gaming (for now), the big daddy of Nvidia Kepler-based GPUs isn't even here yet.