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    AMD HD 8970M Unveiled By MSI. 7.5% faster than nVIDIA 680M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bigspin, Apr 7, 2013.

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    AMD HD 8970M Unveiled By MSI Notebook Japan Media Gathering. According to the slides it's 7.5% faster than nVIDIA 680M


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    Radeon HD 8970M is codenamed “Neptune” and would ship with the MSI’s GX70 high-performance notebook. The performance slides pit the Radeon HD 8970M “Neptune” against the GTX 680M against which the AMD part is almost 7.5% faster in average in 3DMark 11 performance mode.

    It looks like 8970M is more optimised(revised silicon) version of a current flagship mobile card.

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    bigspin, Apr 7, 2013
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    Actually that card is very likely much faster and is presently being limited by the AMD CPU. I want to see what it can do with an i7.
     
    vsg28, Apr 7, 2013
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    yea 7.5% isn't that much "faster". Only time will tell how it compares to the 780m. ;)
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 7, 2013
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    I never trust any of these numbers until both GPUs are in end user hands and have been tested. Remember the claim that the 7970m was something like 30% faster than the GTX 680m? That was clearly not the case in the end.

    On a different note, I wonder if its going to be a performance leap like it was from 6xxx to 7xxx
     
    Raidriar, Apr 8, 2013
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    doubt it will be as it is the same architecture for the most part. Probably will an increase like the 485m to the 580m. A bit of an upgrade, but nothing an overclock can't fix. :p
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 8, 2013
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    blabla. what do they expect to charge for the card, thats what i want to know.
     
    unphoto, Apr 8, 2013
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    what this just tells me is that graphics technology has peaked out... at least for the time being... I don't think we're going to see (as someone else described) the kind of performance boosts from generations of chipsets like we did with the 480m and the 580m.
     
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    Fastest chip is nothing if driver support is bad.Resonantly AMD doing really good job in optimising drivers for games.heck! even DICE used HD7990 card for upcoming BF4 demo.
     
    bigspin, Apr 9, 2013
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    That was a big leap, but I doubt we will see that this year.
     
    J.Dre, Apr 9, 2013
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    That looks pretty cool :) but we have to see what nVidia comes out with also :)
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Apr 10, 2013
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    I hope once all tested by end users, it's the case of "just shut up and take my money..." But these days you are never sure, just the thought of renaming old chips annoys the hell out of me. Just leave the old chip be and don't release anything, increase yield and drop the price and sell boats load more.

    But companies renaming chips, trying to milk more from customers but end up loosing them as they wait for next gen rather than going with what is available.
     
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    Good to know, but comparing HD 8970M to GTX 680M is not fair because of one year of difference between them, even if the second one can go much higher than 8970M by overclock with vbios method.. I would like to see GTX 780M compared to 8970M..
     
    TinyW, Apr 14, 2013
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    That is not why we compare the previous generation with the current generation. It has nothing to do with being fair.
     
    J.Dre, Apr 14, 2013
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    wonder how it compares to the 680mx. That is what is rumored to be the 780m just rebadged and using less power I think? I don't know for sure.
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 14, 2013
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    From what it looks like the 680mx is faster for sure than the 8970m based off the rumored benchmarks. I would be happy if the 780m was a rebadged 680mx, that's a desktop 680 in a laptop :)
     
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