Radeon R8 M435DX 

The enthusiast has managed to overclock the processor to a staggering 8171.53 MHz.

This time, the 8 GHz barrier has been broken, and not once, but twice.

When the driver is released and third party benchmarks emerge, it will become clear whether Nvidia was true to it word or not.

Ofcourse, the benchmarks themselves came under criticism because of the fact that a very high end processor was used to test a supposedly “CPU-Overhead-Reducing” Driver.

While we already did a drop, scratch and water test to see if the smartphone could sustain a few hits here and there; iFixit’s One M8 teardown would show you what to expect realistically when you have a broken or damaged HTC One M8.

IFixit also notes that the repair work is made harder by the use of copious amounts of tape, adhesive, and copper shielding.

If these benchmarks are true, and it looks like they are, it reveals why Nvidia didn’t bother creating a rival API to Mantle but instead increased optimized their graphics card for the DirectX 11 API in a way that performance can be obtained from a simple driver update.

During the event, NVIDIA presented several benchmark slides which show how the company has improved efficiency of their graphics cards in several DirectX 11 titles and still aiming to deliver more improvements through driver updates.