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    ATI HD 7970M or Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Dracula666, Apr 16, 2012.

  1. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Only new game i can think of that might include PhysX is Borderlands 2, so hopefully it wont run like a turtle on my 6970m. D;
     
    DEagleson, Apr 18, 2012
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  2. AetasSerenus

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    If my research is somewhat accurate, for a laptop that one plans to do some heavy gaming and still want to do quite a bit of various design and rendering ; Nvidia should still the way to go right?
     
    AetasSerenus, Apr 18, 2012
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    Depends on the programs you use.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 18, 2012
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  4. AetasSerenus

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    Quite a few; to mention a few I can recall right now:
    Various fractal explorers and renderers, Most of the components of the Adobe and Autodesk suites, ZBrush, Lightwave, some dibbiling with the CryENGINE SDKs and limited work with other SDKs.

    + quite a few more, I want a card that performs well over a broad spectrum of content creation software.

    And I do know that AMD is the way to go for most sound related creation; This is not something I do that often, and I currently don't have any project down the line that would require much of such
     
    AetasSerenus, Apr 18, 2012
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  5. SlickDude80

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    These are the specs of the 7970m as quoted from DELL

    Core 850mhz
    Vram 1200mhz
    1280 stream processors
    153.6 gb/sec
    100w???

    Help Me Choose: Video Cards | Dell

    click on compare side by side

    EDIT: Attached a screenshot for you guys
     

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    SlickDude80, Apr 19, 2012
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  6. micahmatthew

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    Do the CUDA cores effect Photoshop or Illustrator? I'm guessing probably not?
     
    micahmatthew, Apr 22, 2012
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    w3ak3stl1nk, May 9, 2012
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    timehacker, May 9, 2012
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    I think the new adobe cs6 supports open cl which will support gpu acceleration with the 7970m? As applications move toward the open cl standard, I think the advantage of cuda will lessen.
     
    quickstrike2, May 9, 2012
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  10. SlickDude80

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    Good point!!

    here:

    AMD and Adobe Announce OpenCL Support in Creative Suite 6 by VR-Zone.com

    excerpt:

    Even though AMD claimed they have a GPGPU part since 2008, the crude reality was that key software from vendors such as Adobe - was accelerated using CUDA, thus only operated on NVIDIA hardware. That situation is now changing in a big way…

    Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-and...-in-creative-suite-6/15657.html#ixzz1uPJ4ge5B

    OPEN CL is supported in CS6. quickstrike makes a very good point...people tend to eventually gravitate to the open standards.
     
    SlickDude80, May 9, 2012
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  11. DEagleson

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    Awesome news.
    Im guessing Adobe finally went with OpenCL since it works on Windows & OSX regardless of what GPU you use.

    +1 to open standards. :D
     
    DEagleson, May 9, 2012
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  12. Cloudfire

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    I know you are talking about GTX 675M, but please don`t consider the 680M when it comes to use with GPGPU. :p

    [​IMG]
     
    Cloudfire, May 9, 2012
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  13. distob

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    Since this thread has been bumped, I wanted to point out the notebookcheck.com page for the 7970M now says that TDP is 100W.
     
    distob, May 9, 2012
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    Tahiti, so BEAST
     
    Zero989, May 9, 2012
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    I would love to see a comparison against the 500 series though, since Fermi was pretty good with GPGPU
     
    Cloudfire, May 9, 2012
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  16. Zero989

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    I'd rather see Tesla since nVIDIA is known for crippling GPGPU.
     
    Zero989, May 9, 2012
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  17. Cloudfire

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    Yup very true
     
    Cloudfire, May 9, 2012
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  18. Zero989

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    My system gets:

    541MPix/s
    97.92MPix/s
     
    Zero989, May 9, 2012
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    Teslas would have the same performance based on the GK104 chip, it only has a few 64bit shaders at all.

    It's a mid range chip not meant for compute.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 9, 2012
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    Hrm... wondering if Cuda multiforcer will do the same and go to OpenCL. Athough that Adobe news is a big bump in the road for nvidia.
     
    w3ak3stl1nk, May 10, 2012
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  21. fantomasz

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    same here
    still don't know which one to get for my next gaming laptop
     
    fantomasz, May 15, 2012
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    Will the 7970m play battlefield on ultra? or no one really knows right now?
     
    blairo32, May 15, 2012
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    ya, it will play ultra 1080p....expect 50+
     
    SlickDude80, May 15, 2012
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    What between the 675M and 7970M? Well I think your options boil down to one 7970M or two?
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 15, 2012
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  25. long2905

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    I'm rocking it on ultra in both campaign and multiplayer right now!
     
    long2905, May 15, 2012
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  26. jaug1337

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    Lol that power man... insane :D
     
    jaug1337, May 15, 2012
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  27. p1n0yBaLLeR

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    what fps ur getting???
     
    p1n0yBaLLeR, May 15, 2012
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  28. long2905

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    Campaign 50-60
    Multi 40-60
    Ultra setting, vertical sync on, FOV 75.
     
    long2905, May 16, 2012
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  29. p1n0yBaLLeR

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    on stock clocks right?
     
    p1n0yBaLLeR, May 16, 2012
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  30. long2905

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    Oops sorry my bad i need to clarify that no not stock. I havent tried it at stock yet, maybe tomorrow. I run 950/1400.
     
    long2905, May 16, 2012
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  31. p1n0yBaLLeR

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    How much anti-alialising were u running?
     
    p1n0yBaLLeR, May 16, 2012
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  32. long2905

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    I run at ultra preset, nothing custom or modified.
     
    long2905, May 16, 2012
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  33. thailandgod

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    so can you please tell how much fps for stock?
     
    thailandgod, May 21, 2012
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  34. p1n0yBaLLeR

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    benchmarks say 7970m stock runs BF3 ultra with an average of 35 fps.
     
    p1n0yBaLLeR, May 22, 2012
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  35. jaug1337

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    @long2905
    please dont multipost, better editing your first post
     
    jaug1337, May 22, 2012
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  36. long2905

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    i didn't, whoever posted in between asking the details of my gaming sessions...vanished. But thanks for the reminder :)
     
    long2905, May 22, 2012
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  37. Defengar

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    Apparently the m18x r2 with dual 7970's can get upwards of 100 FPS in BF3 multilayer on ultra even with AA cranked up.
     
    Defengar, May 22, 2012
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  38. jaug1337

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    You are welcome, one should better off being reminded by such things by a fellow user rather than a mod :p
     
    jaug1337, May 22, 2012
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