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    8970m performance and drivers?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by cen1, Jul 16, 2013.

  1. cen1

    cen1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello there,

    I am wondering whether there is anyone having an 8970m who could tell me anything about the performance and driversupport. Moreover, how does this card perform in combination with enduro?

    It would be great if there were benchmarks available..... this could save me a few hundred bucks in going for the 8970m instead of the 780m.

    Thank you! :D
     
    cen1, Jul 16, 2013
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    i think just the same as 7970m
     
    littlecx, Jul 17, 2013
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    cen1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Indeed. I have read the above 2 reviews/benchmarks but it's not very much as you mentioned. I am really surprised that it performs better than the 7970 desktop card, or do you mean the 7 870? Probably going for that then :)
     
    cen1, Jul 17, 2013
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    50mhz more than its predecessor. Absolutely nothing worth looking at.
    We are looking at 8990m instead. It will come sometime after september i think...

    Im disappointed in Haswell and everything hardware has to offer this year.
    Hopefully next year there may be some bigger boosts to performance.

    But really, Nvidia is a lot of hot air just like the rest of them - they promised Kepler will have 4x the power of Fermi and we BARELY got 1,75x of that promise.
    Utter disaster.
     
    b0b1man, Jul 17, 2013
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    cen1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I feel the same. Though 780m is a fair 30% improvement over the 680m, the 770m is ABYSMAL at best : / They could have kept the 675m and brought it to Haswell because this is entirely redundant for consumers(tho I do see the idea in a marketing point of view). As for AMD...... they are even worse at this stage, the lack of reviews from 8970m and a minimal performance increase(from what it seems at this moment) over 7970m, but fair is fair, it is about 300 bucks cheaper than 780m....Nonetheless, I might just wait a little while longer.
     
    cen1, Jul 17, 2013
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