I was unclear with that, I meant actual performance index

Ah.

It sits somewhere near the 480 in DX11 games

Sometimes being faster

And since you can clock it up to a 980 terms of pure speed, it's definitely an attractive option now

Presumably, the 480 is better optimized for future DX12 games though

It is

But the thing is

Nvidia's DX12 optimizations haven't been very impressive

I dont give a shit about new games that very much

If it can handle the games I already have well

My mobile lifestyle precludes me to having an APU-based m-ITX build though

You have to remember all games up until now is DX11 based

correct

@Katahane Time to get one of those Chink docks

Or the Razer dock ™

m-ITX with scorpio APU

APU's are comfy though

With DX12 MultiGPU (if used) I can just assume they will use influence to keep SLI etc standard API being used

You could, if the APU was good enough, use the APUs extra GPU juice to boost the card a bit

or am I out of my mind now ._.

I'm one of those guys that's waiting on what Zen has to offer in terms of APUs

Must be better than Bulldozer/Excavator cores

(and other CPUs in general)

Well

I think many are in this boat

Cause upgrading from an Intel platform to another Intel platform doesn't really give alot of performance boost

Alot of people are still sitting on Sandy Bridge rigs

I looked at Intel performance gains

minimal

It was so nice to just buy old server CPUs when they got dumped

And get the most awesome H.265 encoding speed ever

It doesn't, since Intel's been focusing the majority of their R&D on ***muh optimization***

for great value

so, power efficiency

But Intel has decreased nm, consumption haven't they

I believe so

I'd also recommend AMD APU's in a heartbeat for HTPC builds though*

Lappies get most of the performance gains of Intel iterations

Yeah, can just see this comfy mini-ITX with AMD APU

But the desktop side is very bleak, and only AMD can bring a real gamechanger