GTX680m released!

The GTX680m GPU has been officially released and is already for sale on powernotebooks for a whopping $495. The GPU won't be shipped till late June, however.

 

Wow... Hopefully there will be some user benchmarks that aren't from nvidia soon then!

 

495 on top of a gtx670m you mean.

 

Yeah, my bad. That makes it even more esspensive ._.

 

295 more than the 7970m..... It better damn well clock for that much!

 

I'm kind of thinking it's not going live to the hype. Nvidia just seems to be getting back at AMD for those graphs some time ago. IMO it'll be on-par with the 7970m. Mayyyyyybe a bit better, but $295 better? I don't think so.

 

the 580m vs the 6990m was the same, except the 580m was released before and was still slightly slightly faster and offered more stuff like 3d vision and cuda, i personally like 3d vision, i use it about 50% of the time even in multiplayer.

 

Wasn't the GTX 680M already paper launched a while ago?

 

Yea but nobody was putting them up for sale in their configurations.

 

Isn't the 6990m 3d capable as well, but there were no laptops released with it in 3D?

 

There were a few I remember seeing that had the 680m in the configurations in the beginning of June when the card had a paper launch.

 

Sager had them in their configuration for a while now with ETA "End of June". It's about time now. I'm considering springing for the 680m but going to wait and see some performance figures first... or maybe I'll be the first.

 

I believe so, yea.

 

yes but amds hd3d is pretty sucky as far as the drivers go, nvidia 3d vision supports almost all games. also 3d vision in laptops and there is no hd3d in laptops, as far as i know, and on top of that in the sager notebooks only the nvidia cards supported dvi dual link, which means 1080p at 120hz on an external monitor. so all in all the only differences are little extras, but who uses these extras, well enthusiasts, and who buys these cards...?

 

Since the "VS"-thread is a mess with fanboy discussions all over the place, I might as well just post 680M benches and results in this thread.

Anyhow, the GTX 680M have been tested a little and here is the results. Not entirely up to the 6014 GPU score that Schenker notebooks got with their 680M. More results is coming soon.

All credits goes to "crazyzxf" in this thread. Rep him if you want to

 

Not that 3DMark is any indication of what real gaming performance will be, but that score is just around the same as a stock 7970m, no? Can't remember my exact score on my p150hm, but I think it's around 5800.

I may be going out on a limb without seeing real game benches, but there is no way in holy h3ll this card is worth $295 more than a 7970m. Heck, you could almost get a second 7970m for that price and throw it in an m17x.

 

Do us a favour and voice your personal opinions in the "VS"-thread please. Let us atleast have one thread without people spewing crap all over it
This thread should serve as a benchmark/result thread

 

^ Who was that for?

 

The one above

 

A benchmark/result thread can come in later when people actually have these in their machines. Until then, you are going to see stagnant 3 or 4 benchmarks form a couple of manufacturers that have been given some of these early as teasers. I don't think what he said was crap either. Was it not true? That benchmark is on par with the 7970m. He has TWO 680s that cost him almost a grand which shows that he is by no means a fanboy. Considering he has the best of both laptop and desktop worlds, it only goes to show that he is as unbiased as one could be. I see no reason why a benchmark from a MANUFACTURER, an early benchmark, at that, cannot be followed by a comparison with the red side.

I have seen your comment that summarized the 680m release ("no way is this gonna be the gtx 670m downclocked...yeah....no way....holy crap it IS the 670m!!!"....that one) and I agree with you. That one was a bit ridiculous. But I see nothing wrong in what harmattan did.

 

OK, I see. Pretty much pointless to ask for people to discuss something objective in this forum.

 

4gb 680m MXM module is available at Eurocom for $725 USD.
2gb 7970m also available for $514, that's a 211$ difference.

In addition, there's a mystery card:
4GB GDDR5; NVIDIA GTX 6x0M;768 CUDA;256-bit;N13E-GTX (GK104);Kepler (28nm);MXM 3.0b;100W [$661]

 

I didn't expect less from Nvidia that is a little monster there

 

Don't you mean this card:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/671897-possible-new-gtx-570m.html

Quadro k4000m is 100W, and Quadro k3000m 75W. But both seem to be Kepler

 

How come in the nvidia page, on their article of the 680m, they state the GPU only to have 2GB memory? Are they releasing two different memory configs or is the 4GB like an exclusive deal?

Thanks for the score Cloudfire. Seems inline with the HD7970m on stock, so it's a heated battle. It seems that the GTX670 core was downclocked a bit too much, but at least it still has the potential of its desktop counterpart. Seems like a heated battle. According to nvidia charts, it's inline with what was expected (slightly less than 6k GPU)

It's sad to see neither nvidia nor AMD have released GPUs yet to fill the gaps between previous high end and current high end. There is simply such a huge disparity in performance. 680m completely eclipses the 675m.

 

Are you shure that isn`t the "old" 680M when all thought that it was gonna have 768 cores? Maybe they are too lazy to remove it or something

I can`t put my finger on what GPU this mystery GPU is replacing. We already have a 100W now. Releasing something equally as hot and weaker doesn`t make sense.

 

actually they are releasing two cards weaker than the gtx 680m:

Quadro k4000m is 100W, and Quadro k3000m 75W.

see the above post

 

Yeah, I have a feeling that the K3000M is the "new" 570M, which should match or beat GTX 580M. But I`m not shure

 

but what model number would they use with it though, they already used 660m, 670m, 675m and 680m

I guess they would have to called something like 677m

 

Unless they make it match the 675m performance while consuming less power and quietly remove the original 675m from the market haha

 

*sure

In any case I feel it won't appear until 700 series. There is nowhere to put it 660, 670, 675 & 680 are already taken.

 

Thats an easy one all they will do is put ' ti ' after the number , taken or not

 

True. Lets bring back the days of 9800m GTX, GT, GS etc haha

 

Woot! 670m GTXTX Ti!

 

you forgot Ultra =)))

 

I just found this. The Alienware M17x R4 with GTX 680M have been tested.

They scored a lot more than what we have heard lately with 3DMark 11 (Dell have optimized driver for 680M?). And the gaming scores is impressive as hell.

Alienware M17x R4 Review | Digital Trends

Just a quick comparison with 7970M (Mind that the review of GTX 680M was done with a 3820QM while 7970M was done with a 3610QM):

3DMark 11
7970M: P5600
GTX 680M: P6282

Diablo 3:
Ultra, everything maxed
7970M: 100.8FPS
GTX 680M: 138FPS

Skyrim:
Ultra High
7970M: 55.6FPS
GTX 680M: 72FPS

 

impressive!

can't wait for sli results...

 

That's odd.. check THIS out but again notebookcheck is funnehh

so on to MySN.. that's something entirely else

Their 3dMark11 Benchmark:
http://i50.tinypic.com/1q1oqb.png

P150EM
i7-3920XM
GTX 680M

More details follow...

Unigine Heaven 3.0
Settings:
o 1920x1080 8xAA
o Shaders high
o Textures high
o Filter triliniar
o Anisotropy 4x
o Occlusion enabled
o Refraction enabled
o Volumetric enabled
o Tessalation normal

Results:
o FPS: 54,3 FPS (53,3)
o Scores: 1367 (1344; -2%)
o Min FPS: 9,4 (23,6)
o Max FPS: 127,1 (110,1)

(in brackets are our results with 7970M at stock clocks)

3dMark06

Settings
o Standard settings 1280x1024
Results
o Scores: 24830 (23412; -6%)

The Min/Max FPS in Unigine are quite interesting..​

 

you mean the 3DMark 11 score?
The guy in the Alienware forum tested the 680M yesterday and got P5900. Now we have yours and the official review I posted which scored P6200.

Reason? I think its due to drivers. The P5900 was without drivers optimized for 680M, P6200 was with Dell drivers possibly optimized so that is the score we should expect.

 

Ah yes the drivers.. how could I miss that! and what the hell those drivers aren't even optimized properly!

G_G

 

I am just going to type what everyone is thinking...

We need one of these laptop manufacturers to put these head-to-head and benchmark in a similar system.

We also need someone to test the OC'ing on them as this is the only test which really matters in the long run.

The 680m has immense potential provided it isn't heat limited or ram-limited. However, it has some insanely high expectations to fill for its price tag.

 

I might as well post it here as well.

Some things I would like to point out about the review to put things straight:

1.

Highly valid score since faster CPU does NOT matter



2.

NOT valid since faster CPU plays a big role in this game



3.

Highly valid due to GPU score isn`t affected by CPU. Personally I wouldn`t care about this Performance preset since its only 720p