485M vs 6970M

Yeah I'm pretty much putting the the rest of the money towards the screen... they look incredible AND they're always on to boot

 

The "if you're on a budget" stuff is indeed funny. I spent $2k, with the 6970M.

GTX 460M and 470M are the budget parts.

 

i think it would be a good thing to post comparative benches of both cards as a guide for potential buyers.

 

I wouldn't recommend the 470M by itself, but if you're interested in picking up the NP7280, I would go with the 470M SLI over a single 485M card. According to the benchmarks on notebookcheck.net, about half the games run faster with a 485M card and half run faster on 470M SLI (I think the determining factor is how well the game can take advantage of SLI). However, for the games that run faster on the 485M, the 470M SLI is only slightly behind. For the games where 470M SLI is faster, there's as much as a 50% increase.

 

I totally agree, and Anandtech's testing backs that up, as they tested the X7200's 480M in SLI vs the 6970M and 485M. It really isn't close in anything but Metro and Starcraft.





The 470M in SLI will do even a little bit better, against the single GPU configs in the P170HM.

Dual GTX 470M is a ridiculous value.

 

how does the 470M SLI compare towards a single ati 6970M? Theres only a little extra cost for the 470's and they dont require an aditional power brick to run an additional card like the 6970's and gtx485m's do.

Anyone hear a date for the 5 series mobile parts from nvidia?

 

think in one of the other threads they mentioned that the nda for them was over in june. then there's ES testing after that, then clevo gearing up for em, then make ready to buy by consumers..

 

1. Click on the thumbnails in my post right above yours. The 470M is faster than the 480M, by 5-10%, so you can do the math.

2. I hear the Non-Disclosure Agreement ends sometime in June.

 

I would save some more money and get the 6970 XFire since the scaling on the 6000 series is really better than 400 series SLI.

 

470M SLI is faster than the 6970M by a small margin:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI - Notebookcheck.net Tech

Scroll down a bit and you'll see game benchmarks.

 

Look at the 1080p benches I just posted in #55. It's much greater than just a small margin.

Notebookcheck sucks.

 

A shame that the only option for Sandy Bridge processors and dual GPUs is currently held by the Alienware franchise, I don't know if the difference of close to GBP100 is worth it for improved performance of the 470m SLI compared to the 6970m.

 

Alienware(dell) use clevo dont they? i had a precision M90 once and that was based on clevo and was also used as an alienware machine. Was very well designed but at £2,500 (i payed £1,500 from USA) it should be!

I seen many companys offering duel GPU's, More sli but crossfire too LPC-Digital will do what you want i found in the USA. RJtech also. Europe they seem to like keep us locked down to there options unfortunaitly

Looks like ill stick with my origional decision of 6970

@Kevin_Jack2.0
'Look at the 1080p benches I just posted in #55. It's much greater than just a small margin'

I cant see duel 470M's in any of them charts? there cpu's are all different and i can hardly take anything from the information in post #55 or am i missing something here?

480M sli/ 485M/ 6970M/ quadro 5000/ 460M

No 470M's? so how do you get 470M SLI from them charts?

Many thanks

 

We can use the chart to ballpark the 470M SLI, because the 470M is about 5 to 10 percent faster than the 480M. So, by looking at how the 480M SLI beats up on the single 6970M and 485M, we can draw a logical conclusion, one whch says that the pair of 470M will widen the gap even further.

 

The current Alienware m17 R3 and the Clevo SB-compatible laptops are not the same, I believe Alienware have picked another OEM supplier other than Clevo to do their chassis.

Kevin: Is it 480m>470m or the other way round? I thought at stock the 480 is stronger.

 

470m is faster & cooler then 480m in most light 3d due to higher clock rate, but slower when extreme 3d.......ex: heaven all max out
due to
288>>352sp
24>>32rops
192>>256bit
1.5>>2.0g vram