6970 or 560m?

I've stuck with nvidia much of my life (mainly because at the times I would get a new desktop they had a better deal for performance, except for the time where the 9800 radeon was destroying nvidia cards ), but now I'm looking to get a new laptop. Would it be worth it to get the 6970 over the 560? What about all the phyx and nvidia optimized stuff games seem to have, would the extra power from 6970 be worth it (I'll admit, I've been out of the loop for a long time concerning video cards so I have little idea what I'm talking about >_> )

 

The 6970m blows the 560m out of the water. I think its about 50% better on average in everything. Physx isn't implemented into very many games. You would be better off with the 6970m if you can find one. The 6990m (about 15% faster) is meant to replace it.

 

The list of video games from this year (2011) that include GPU accelerated physics are:

- Alice: Madness Returns
- Batman: Arkham City
- Jianxia 3

and...

That's it.

Most devs aren't interested in making games where the content is only available on one brand of hardware, because it's expensive to produce. I would focus on price and performance, as do 99% of developers.

 

As it has been said, the HD6970m is quite faster than the Nvidia 560m.

The appropiate rivals of the 560m are the HD6870m/HD5870m.

 

yes the 6970m is faster but the 560m in general will be cheaper and will have longer battery life.

 

Lol... if you are using either gpu's on battery, say goodbye to it very fast.
I will agree that the 6970M takes more power, but if you are on battery and are using the laptop for limited tasks (such as browsing, movies, etc...) your gpu will probably operate on a lower frequency either way and consume less power than at full.

If you are only concerned about games, then get the 6970M.
It definitely blows the 560M out of the water.
the only reason why I might recommend the 560M, would be if you need CUDA.
So, if your intent is to play games and use CUDA optimized software (such as 3dsMax), the 560M will be cheaper and worthy of this task (plus it's no slouch in games)... otherwise, if it's just games, then stick with 6970M.

 

Some games require Physx that may cause instability to some ATI owners.
As a remedy we ATI users download Nvidia Physx directly from their site and the game will run well.
In short, no problem regarding ATI cards. Faster and cheaper, well...some hotter.

 

Wouldn't worry about PhysX. When people will actually care about hardware accelerated physics, Bullet Physics will be ready for primetime.

I have not read any indiciations that game developers care about this though, unless Nvidia hands them a million bucks to implement it.

 

i would go for the 6970 ATi is the future ^^

 

ati does not exist...

 

AMD did a Pacman and ate ATI. :3
I would take the HD 6970m as its is a faster card that the GTX 560m.

 

6970M hands down.

 

Chose to get the 6970 (was $50 bucks off for some reason )

 

like everyone said 6970 is the way to go. great decision

 

6970M always. I bought NVIDIA once and i've always regretted it. Overheating laptop etc. With AMD , i've always had no problems and i just love it.

 

For future readers, (OP made their decision)

The 570m is Nvidia's answer to the 6970m and in the MSI laptops its available in, is quite favorable.

The 570m is quite similar in performance (better in some things, worse in others) and ships in $1400-1500 laptops.

As for heating... the 570m runs cool as a cucumber even fairly highly OC'd.

This is taking nothing away from the 6970, which is a solid GPU.

 

LOL shure, if you stuffed a AMD GPU inside that laptop, it would not overheat. And its raining fluffy bunnies outside right now