Anyone tried 680m gtx on M17x r3?

Anyone tried 680m on m17x r3? its available in eurocom.
"4GB GDDR5, NVIDIA GTX 6x0M; 768 CUDA 256BIT, N13E-GTX (GK104) Kepler (28nm); MXM 3.0b;100W" - 661USD.

 

but it isn't available to the public just yet

 

i am lost...768 cuda? I thought somewhere else it was 1311 or something like that

 

Yea...I heard the same..around 1300. I've even heard 1600 from some. Maybe this card is just another hype. I hope it is though so AMD releases good 7970 drivers.

 

Eurocom will probably preorder now and ship them after ~3 months from release date

 

Comes down to availability. If yields are low, its gonna be hard for companies such as eurocomm to get there hands on some cards.

 

Cards are coming out to my local resellers on 30th of June, and they have 1344 Cuda Cores running a core clock of 720 and memory clock of 1800, with 4GB of GDDR5 ram at speeds of 115.2GB/s on a 256bit memory bus

 

please tell me your source

 

I can vouch for vuman619. Those numbers he posted are accurate

 

AnandTech reports the same features: AnandTech - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M: Kepler GK104 Goes Mobile.

 

+rep for the nice read. We shall see if those FPS numbers are true here soon hopefully. A 50% increase over the 580m is pretty crazy!(if its true)

 

Will the 680m perform at full potential in the R3???

The R3 has PCI express 2.0... is this going to cripple the 680m's potential if placed in the R3???

 

Doubtful. We've seen only so few video cards that can consume the full bandwidth of a x16 slot.

 

Thanks, so you are saying the 680m will perform just as well in the R3 (PCIe 2.0) when compared to the 680m in the R4 (PCIe 3.0) ??

 

The bandwidth should not be a problem at all. There will be about 2% difference at most when connected to a 2560x1600 monitor. I will be the difference between running Crysis 3 @53fps vs 52.4fps.

 

Thanks Widezu69, hopefully we wont have a power throttle issue with this card like in the 580m.

 

Ah, thank you for that info! It sounds like it will be an incredible GPU. I hope it outperforms the 7970M by a significant margin. I'm enjoying the 7970M CF setup, but I want more than it offers. It's a little bit on the bland side and AMD continues to offer disappointing driver support.

 

Hey guys,

For clarity, we don't have the 680M available for purchase/pre-order just yet. We'll only be doing that once we have confirmed that everything works as intended and have them in their little boxes ready to ship out

That spec line grabbed from the Eurocom site in the quote above isn't quite accurate.

Specs match what others have mentioned and linked to. For convenience here are the major points:

4GB VRAM,
720MHz clock
1,344 CUDA cores
256 bit interface
100W TDP

We'll be sending out updates when we have them ready for sale via our mailing list. If you'd like to get added to the list, please PM me with the subject 'NBR Mailing List' and include your name, email, notebook model and current video card(s)


Regards,

-Dan

 

Thanks dude. If you manage to get them first I think you are going to move quite a few

 

But will the M17x/18x be with a 2GB or a 4GB 680m? :S
Heard that it will be the 2GB version, i sure don´t hope so

 

Why, 4GB is way overkill. There will be no performance hit at all.

 

Yup there is no way that core is going to fill up over 2GB of memory. Besides, the 680m is a downclocked GTX 670 and that uses a 2GB GDDR5. So if that works fine, this should too. 4GB is just a marketing gimmick to fool those that will see the higher number and pay the extra dollar.

 

yup agreed! The 680m will never use 4gigs of vram. IMO, this is a waste of money and generates more heat. They could have dropped it to 2gigs and lowered the cost of the card a tiny bit...plus i wonder what detrimental affects will come about when you try and overclock this card with 4gigs of ram.

I'll bet money that the 2gig version will overclock better

 

That's true. The 3GB 670Ms are AWFUL overclockers on the memory. Like... despicable.

 

so anyone been able to test yet? anyone got one of these bad boys yet?

 

Let's keep one thread on this subject to avoid crossposting:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/672230-m17x-r3-680m-compatability.html