Will the 675M Max out on Guild Wars 2

will it play with ultra settingS?

 

I don't know much about Guild Wars 2 other than it's an MMO...I have little doubt that will take much to max it out.

 

Yes it will.

 

How sure are you? Have u played the beta?

 

GW2

System requirements

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better
NVIDIA GeForce 7800, ATI Radeon X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse[2]

GPU

Manufacturer NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 600M Series

GeForce GTX 675M 384@620MHz

GeForce GTX 670M 336@598MHz
Codename N13E-GS1
Pipelines 384 - unified
Core Speed * 620 MHz
Shader Speed * 1240 MHz
Memory Speed * 1500 MHz
Memory Bus Width 256 Bit
Memory Type GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory 2048 MB
Shared Memory no
DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Current Consumption 100 Watt
Transistors 1950 Million
technology 40 nm

 

Since the game isn't, i can't be 100% sure, but i'm pretty confident it will and yes, i have played the beta. However, the beta is in no way representative of what the final game's performance will be. Unoptimized is putting it mildly when describing the April 27-29th Beta, even systems with a GTX680 were struggling due to the CPU side of things being unoptimized and running on only one core. Note that the gamescom first demo machines were running GTX460s with high settings at 1080p and performance was pretty good. The GTX675m packs more punch than a desktop 460 so i wouldn't worry if i were you.

 

^I think the above is a minimum. So there is not too much benefit for the next couple years if i decided to go with the 7970m if i was solely concentrating on diablo 3 and guild wars 2

 

Yes, those are the minimum reqs, not the recommended ones. See my post above regarding the beta.

 

Too much thinking going in to this - it's an MMO and in my humble opinion MMOs are not crafted with top of line GPU's in mind

 

THANK YOU!!!!!

 

I am going to change my 9150 order from the 7970m to 675m!

 

I'd keep the 7970m for more headroom if you can afford it though. There is nothing to say that future expansions won't increase the demand in graphics. This happened with GW when Nightfall came out in 2006. Also you may want to get some other PC games at one point. That said, what is the price difference between the two?

 

Thanks for your answers again - very helpful!!!

The difference is $100. An alternative to upgrading to the 7970m will be to upgrade the wireless to bigfoot killer 1103

 

I wouldnt do that. Sincerely, the gpu on those machines if you buy them separately are quite expensive. To put all your purchase with only one game in mind is quite terrible, games are launched by the thousands every year

 

I'll usually play 1 or 2 specific games/year - such as blizzards or gw 2

 

I do it too, but I like to keep my notebooks as long as possible 3-4 years for me is gold.

 

And if you intend to do this, the 7970m should last longer with decent performance, too bad the 680m isn't out yet though.

 

The $100 upgrade to most people on an expensive laptop is a bargain. 7970m is 80-100% more powerful, the laptop should be thinner and lighter and take probably slightly less power consumption in watts.

 

Don't do that. A 7970M is a lot better than a 675M. It's a much more cost effective upgrade than getting a better wireless card.

 

You can replace a wireless card yourself for much MUCH less.

 

indeed, that is usually the way to go

and I would just get the intel 6300

 

Thanks guys, I will keep the stock card and keep the order on the 7970

 

How do you guys think the 670s will fare with guild wars?

 

One they optimize the game it will be fine. It is pretty much utilizes one processor core and only 60% of your gpu. I averaged 45-50 fps on max settings with i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz and 5850s in xfire.

Check out the GW2 thread in this subforum to get more info.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/595237-guild-wars-2-a-76.html

 

I agree that they arent optimized to take advantage of the highest end GPU's. My GTX 580 could run WOW and Star Wars the Old Republic Maxed out and the optimum settings for GW's doesn't look much higher.

The reviews I have read from people playing the Beta have been less than stellar anyway.

 

I ran the GW2 beta weekend at max settings 1080P with no issues.

I have a 580m/675m.

 

No one had a good frame rate on the beta. And the settings were fake.

 

The settings weren't fake, but so much was running off the CPU including some graphical settings that it didn't really matter what GPU you had past a certain level of performance.

 

Eh, either way, I didn't notice anything horrible. It wasn't 60 FPS butter, but it was perfectly fine and clearly a very early beta. By the time it is retail a 580m will run it maxed 1080p with no problem at all.

 

ArenaNet optimizes their games from backwards and forward. In the beta's we have seen supposedly they did not take advantage of the latest hardware. They work on the lowest requirements first and then move up. SLI didn't work for example.

It will be hard to tell before the game is out. We can only hope the optimzation will be worthy of the original. It IS a very CPU bound game.


If you played it, you could see it. It was simply the amount of players - 30 players going freaking insane in some event. My i7 950 3.0 GHz cpu was dragged to its knees. its crazy.

 

I played the beta all weekend, I had no issues with framerate (besides a few lower fps World v. World battles that had 200+ people on screen at once), but then again, I was running it off a 4.6 ghz sandy bridge, which obviously won't be in a notebook.

Video card wise, I don't think the game is that demanding tbh, the game doesn't actually look THAT great compared to FPS games and such, doesn't really have hardcore shadowing/shaders, so I think any decent card can max out the game from what I've seen.

 

I'm going to have to agree with the consensus here. It's still an MMO and won't be outrageously demanding. WvW might be a different story though...

 

WvWvW in zergs will cripple any system most likely aside from maybe dual GTX680s+ insane CPU OCs and on.

 

My 580m gtx easily maxes it and actually run fluidly with tons of people i.e. the finale event.

 

Good choice, the 7970m is a great card. Should be basically 80-100% faster while taking as much power consumption but the laptop should weigh a lot less, should run a lot cooler and have much better battery life with discrete gpu/

 

I wonder when the 680m comes out. It would be funny if its called the 680m, people will be saying why is the 680m nearly 2x as powerful as a 675m lol.

 

It's pointless to speculate right now since the whole game is unoptimized and is CPU-bound and CPU priority is forced at low.