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    680M available in Clevo 4GB Vram!!! Cost $528 to upgrade compared to 7970m $238

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by micahmatthew, Jun 4, 2012.

  1. micahmatthew

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    to me looks like it cost $525 more over the 7970 :eek:

    NVM: $286 more lol
     
    Speedy Gonzalez, Jun 4, 2012
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    Not worth it in my opinion. I am not looking for the absolute fastest graphics card and I can buy another graphics card at that price.
     
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    So awful; articles are saying it's 37% faster than the GTX 570m.... Which means it is only 23% over the 675m in 3dmark11. And 24% LESS THAN 7970m.... For $286 more? ??? For gaming this is just not worth the cash in any way shape or form.

    For photoshop/3d design I suppose the CUDA could come in handy... but seriously for gaming this is a FAIL.
     
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    Origin is always more expensive then most other resellers with a presence here on NBR. Most likely a $150-$200 upgrade over the 7970m.
     
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    Still; thats 50% more money; for 24% LESS performance.... Sounds like a bad idea to me haha.
     
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    I bet is going to be like last year with 6990m and 580m like 5% difference in performance but a premium price for the Nvidia card
     
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    Yeah thats what most people here in the Clevo forums have been speculating. It's sad that people who mostly game would fork over 50% more money for less performance just because they are a fan boy -_-. Very sad.

    I'm just hoping that in return AMD releases some optimized drivers and gives another 5-10% boost in performance to the 7970m.

    I want to OC mine a little [just 10% or so] and get some good drivers.

    And bam you can get 6,100 in 3dmark. About 20% over these leaked results of the 680m. Rofl.

    And I got mine for cheap since i pre ordered :p

    Getting it in a few weeks; really excited haha. BF3 on Ultra here I come!
     
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    Sounds about right Speedy. No way Nvidia releases a card that is not at least equivalent to the 7970m. Hence the long delay in surfacing.
     
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    the 37% over 570M was part of early leaks based on an earlier revision of the 680m,thus has nothing to do anymore with this actual 680m release :) its def going to beat the 7970m, just have to wait and see by how much exactly.

    edit @OP: u should probly change the thread title to "680m costs xxx $ more than 7970m", easier to have an overview that way ;)

    cheers

    Sent from my GT-I9001 using Tapatalk 2
     
    jaybee83, Jun 4, 2012
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    In terms of parts they are usually on par with the rest of the resellers, the base and other services come at a premium similar to Mythologic. There is no way it's going to be less than a $200 upgrade over the 7970, though it will likely be more around $250+.
     
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    I know the GTX 680M is SMX native. But I wonder this GTX 680M comes with Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism too, if it does it's definately worth the money :D

    If you want to know what SMX, Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism are, check out the video below. It's at the mark 24:46.

    iStreamplanet Flash Player
     
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    Wait, they have the 680M in stock already?
     
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    You know I would really prefer a 2gb version that is slightly cheaper. 4gb is completely unnecessary and only drives the price up for me.
     
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    photoshop 6 and CS6 dont use CUDA anymore they moved to OpenCL and as are a bunch of other pro apps ( Solidworks, MAYA, MAYHEM, 3DsMAX ) and actually a gforce kepler card is SLOWER than its predecessor in GPGPU functions in many cases. I really see this on the desktop cards and the new CS6. upcoming quadro's and teslas should but price is astranomical comparatively

    AMD and Adobe Announce OpenCL Support in Creative Suite 6 by VR-Zone.com

    Nvidia cripples GPGPU in Geforce GTX 680 - The Inquirer
     
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    You know, for the most part 4gb isn't much use... right now. But when running Skyrim with a lot of texture mods the 2gb of vram I have now gets owned pretty hard, which makes that 4gb seem like a pretty nice luxury.
     
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    Yeah I didn't know they moved to Open CL; did CS5 also support Open CL?

    So the 7970m will be taken advantage of in CS6?? Awesome!
     
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