Sunday, February 8, 2015

IT News Head Lines (AnandTech) 2/9/2015

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The DirectX 12 Performance Preview: AMD, NVIDIA, & Star Swarm
With the various pieces of Microsoft’s latest API finally coming together, today we will be taking our first look at the performance of the future with DirectX 12. The API is stabilizing, video card drivers are improving, and the first DirectX 12 application has been written; Microsoft and their partners are finally ready to show off DirectX 12. To that end, today we’ll looking at DirectX 12 through Oxide Games’ Star Swarm benchmark, our first DirectX 12 application and a true API efficiency torture test. Does DirectX 12 bring the same kind of performance benefits we saw with Mantle? Can it resolve the CPU bottlenecking that DirectX 11 struggles with? How well does the concept of a low-level API work for a common API with disparate hardware? Let’s find out!


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Comcast Employees Can't Stop Cussing out Customers, Woman Billed as 'B' Word
Lucky that Comcast has those local monopolies on high speed internet and cable television service, or it might actually suffer

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