More proof showing you are absolutely full of it. You know I am really getting tired of getting slammed by you every time I make a post trying to help people.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e,3331-13.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/561-w...ws7/page3.html
Want to know why performance is so similar? Because they are basically using the same kernel. DERP. If anything Win 8 is SLOWER, but the difference is so small, who cares. Again, I said if you are buying a new pc and can't migrate win 7, then 8 is fine. ANYONE who is buying Win 8, when they already have 7, and who is expecting a magical increase in game performance though is mistaken. HARDWARE is what is going to fix that.
Tiling is from the API. Core usage is from the API. Also the idea that Nvidia isn't going to make their own (mantle) or sign on is lunacy. They are not going to watch a 7870 kick the @#$@ out of a 760 and lose their a$$ selling expensive hardware for bottom dollar.
Windows 8 does NOTHING for gaming performance in any mmo out or RPG for that matter. The only thing it is better at is Bf4 and it crashes more, which the offical bf4 forum will attest to. Slightly higher performance, and more crashes. Also the higher performance is often exaggerated due to people having badly maintained OS's and running aero in the background. It is a placebo effect.
Now go start and restart your machine over and over again. It is the only good thing about Windows 8 that was actually really good. I mean hell do you even have that watercooled rig OC'd? You are sitting here crying about Ivy which people can get killer deals on and that can = Haswell most of the time. The Haswell is better in one thing then my ivy. Dolphin Emulation (Wii games). In everything else it is close and if I hadn't got lucky and got a low voltage 4.7 ghz Costa Rica Haswell? The Ivy would be dead even with it in gaming. There are a ton of people stuck at 4.3 with stupidly expensive motherboards. Ivy was a silicon lottery and Haswell is even worse. That said? If they are close to the same price, of course you buy a Haswell. Atm, depending where you live? They aren't close. The ivy is killing the haswell on price and Microcenter sold out of the i7-4770k's at 199.99 hella fast, and no one is close to that price. It looks like some of the Cali stores aren't even honoring it.
Now go sell Windows 8 on another forum you M$ slappy. Enjoy the newer NSA backdoor for win 8. NEW AND IMPROVED and not allowed in Germany's government, due to the awesomeness that is M$.