Xbox One vs. PS4: How the hardware specs compare (updated for 2015)

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How do the PS4 and Xbox One compare with each other in 2015? If you’re thinking about buying one of these two consoles–or just want ammunition for bragging rights–here’s what you need to know.

Moore’s Law is dead, long live Moore’s Law

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Moore’s Law is dead. Moore’s Law is very much alive. As the nature of computing has changed over the past 50 years, the promises and potential of the semiconductor industry have changed as well.

DirectX 12, LiquidVR may breathe fresh life into AMD GPUs thanks to asynchronous shading

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With DirectX 12 and Vulkan both coming to games and Windows in the near future, AMD is arguing that features it baked into GCN as far back 2012 will finally prove useful now — thanks to DirectX 12’s ability to juggle multiple threads.

MediaTek may license AMD’s Radeon for next-gen smartphone, tablet graphics chip

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AMD and MediaTek have supposedly teamed up to build tablet and laptop solutions for the mobile space — could this be a new market for AMD?

Next-generation Vulkan API could be Valve’s killer advantage in battling Microsoft

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Valve is putting a hefty push behind the new Vulkan API, but the stakes are higher than they’ve been in past years. This time, the premiere PC game distribution platform is gearing up to take on Microsoft and its Windows Store.