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.

The recent launch of Intel’s Devil’s Canyon processors which boast 4.4 GHz clock speed and the efficient Haswell microarchitecture which allows up to 5 GHz overclock of air cooling might have led AMD to relaunch their own 5 GHz processors which were introduced a year ago but failed to drag the same kind of attention as Intel CPUs do probably due to the failure to match expectation during the Bulldozer and Piledriver era.

Many people might have expected a new launch from AMD around the high-performance x86 segment but as AMD has stated several times before, they are currently focusing their efforts on the APU front since it has been more profitable for the restructuring company.

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.