GTX 680M AVAILABLE NOW! -Discussion Thread-

AnandTech - Origin PC Announces EON15-S and EON17-S with GeForce GTX 680M

Let's hope that sellers like xotic and similar will release this without a pricey Origin logo


What you are looking here folks, is a card made out of binned GTX 670 desktop GK107 with 4GB DDR5 memory cramped into a MXM card. The desktop counterpart only have 2GB :O

 

it takes a month until they receive them

 

I think nVidia might cripple the GDDR5 RAM though. They always kind of gimp one part of the mobile card from the desktop variant...

 

if the reports of 3.6ghz effective or 115.2 GB/s are true, the bandwidth is severely limited in the 680m compared to the desktop 670's 192 GB/s.

Just for reference, the last gen 580m/675m also had 115.2 GB/s bandwidth

However, it remains to be seen if there are any detrimental affects of having such low bandwidth. Kepler is a different architecture

 

Yes exactly, I was thinking about this, different limitations rules apply and I would assume there's a reason behind this odd choice by nVIDIA but hell, we'll find out very very very soon.

 

I think I'm still within the return period for my M17x R4, so I'm probably gonna return it. I really wanted the 120Hz screen originally, but the 7970M was too tempting. I'm getting too many crashes playing games while overclocked on my particular 7970M.

 

It is probably due to thermals really. The 6 GHZ VRAM in desktops get pretty toasty at times if not adequately cooled. Also the 680M is downclocked to 740 MHZ as opposed to the desktop's 915 MHZ.

 

If anything it makes a stronger case for more bandwidth, that's the way it's always been. You don't put up with flat tires on a brand new high-end car on the claim that it's more powerful and efficient than the old one.

 

I thought it's 96GB/s for 675's?

Anyways, there's nothing an overclock wouldn't solve

 

Isn't there a restocking fee on that?

 

Yeah, if you simply want to return it even though there's nothing wrong with it. Mine does have a minor problem with the lighting on the Alienware logo. And it's unlikely they'll charge me if I say I'm returning it in order to reorder another one.

 

why buy a new one with the 680...you think the 680 is going to be that much better? Probably cost more too

 

It will, as nVIDIA always has done

 

Fixed Neither are choirboys when it comes to price gouging

 

Both AMD and Nvidia is in the game to make money, so of course they will try to squeeze as much as possible of consumers.

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Let's hope it's around 450$, not 600$ like the 580 when it first came out

 

not worth it to return, with how the 7970m overclocks its stomps the 680m at stock. Even if the 680m is a good overclocker we arent talking much of a difference here at all

 

At least wait on benchmarks- the 7970m is *really* good, and has awesome compute performance, too. The nvidia chip might perform about the same for 3d, but will be much worse at compute.

 

Oh hi random Alienware appears: Alienware M17x and M18x land new NVIDIA GTX680M graphics option -- Engadget

 

They bosy boost prices over any particular cards desktop equivalent, but Nvidia routinely charges $300 more than AMD, for its respective flagship GPU. Such is the case here, where the 680M is $295 more than the 7970M.

 

AMD price gouge when there is no competition , likewise when a few months later Nvidia release their AMD beating GPU they do exactly the same. To counter AMD drops its prices, and so the pattern emerges

Business is business and neither company is the 'peoples champion'

 

Am I the only one who thinks 4GB is a complete waste? Hope there's 2GB versions available.

 

This seems kinda fishy. It is a bit interesting how they left out the AMD sponsored games like Alan Wake and (I believe) Anno. That being said, BF3 maxed out and 47 fps? That is unbelievable and, contrary to what some here have been saying, a good number of games have a significant jump over the 7970m. Unless I have misconstrued their meaning of very high and compared it to ultra form notebookcheck. Also, yes these are nv benchmarks so we would have to see how it performs real world.

 

BF3 varies in performance dramatically depending on the map. I'm not sure if they listed specifics about how they took the benchmark.

 

yes this is very true. Take all those benches with a grain of salt. They are a good indication of what the card is capable of, but we need independent tests with identical systems (just vid card swapped out) to really compare
Someone reported a 5600 3dmark11 for the 680m in the m18x forums so what we do know is this:

680m

~5600-5900 3dmark11s (performance)
~21,900 Vantage (performance)
~59fps Ungine heaven (tess normal 1080p)

These are straight benches with no dependancies on maps

 

Never take Nvidia's or AMD's word what their card does versus the other, especially not from those deceptive slides and performance charts.

The truth only comes out once we have put them to the test.

 

this is truth

 

Yes that is what I said. These are nv benchs so we would have to see how they perform in real world.

 

now we know one thing, gpus are jumping in performance and this need was demonstrated with samaritan video, the game engines are going to evolve into something, I can smell it, we have a change-of-an-era approaching

 

MM, even the 78xx and 77xx series of GPUs are pushing things forward again.