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    Excellent comparison of AMD 7970 (CF) vs NVIDIA GTX 680M (SLI) just released! Who won?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Honza29, Oct 29, 2012.

  1. Honza29

    Honza29 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No mention of driver versions?
     
    Eldaren, Oct 29, 2012
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    Minimum fps is what counts not maximum. AMD seems to fluctuate more.
     
    ratchetnclank, Oct 29, 2012
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    It states it in the Specifications and Method of Testing section. CCC 12.8 and 306.23 are the driver sets used.

    However these numbers are fairly obvious. I have to say though, I honestly wish they'd done an overclocked comparison, just to see what the value of each setup really is... I was always under the impression that you shouldn't buy the 680M unless you planned to overclock it from the start. o_O
     
    imglidinhere, Oct 29, 2012
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    thats the reason why nvidia pulls out the gtx680mx.
    maybe they want to give to apple.
    but i dont know why the pull the trigger so quikly....
     
    kolias, Oct 29, 2012
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    the faster the revolution the more money
     
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    Not sure about this driver update... The scores you get in Vantage when stock and overclocked, on the 7970M, are pretty much the same. It seems to be a huge tessellation boost though. I mean, stock used to be around 5.5K GPU in 3DMark11. Whereas now it's around 6.4k GPU stock. It's significant enough to warrant using them even if the drivers are a little buggy. (I don't know if they are or not. :p)
     
    imglidinhere, Oct 30, 2012
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    That article has lot of mistakes...i played Alan Wake on the same high settings on GT 680M and 3720QM....i am getting highs of 50-55 and lows 35-40
     
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    you must try them..... :D
     
    kolias, Oct 30, 2012
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    you must try them..... :D
     
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    Not the only mistake they did...
     
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    Oh my precious! No one can insult my precious.

    BTW I'm still waiting for a benchmark of your 680M, oh proof it's actually yours would be nice. BTW how much did the K4000M cost you?
     
    Zymphad, Oct 30, 2012
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