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    Confusing Round Up - 680m vs 7970m vs 675m

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kingbobo, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. kingbobo

    kingbobo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone seen this on notebookcheck?

    Review GeForce GTX 680M vs. Radeon HD 7970M - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

    Even with the Enduro Problems on Clevo machines (not talking about the AW benchs), the 7970m is still showing better results on many of the games than the 680m...

    This seems to be directly contradicting what users are saying on this forum? Unless I'm misinterpreting something.
     
    kingbobo, Aug 3, 2012
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    arcticjoe Notebook Deity

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    Hard to say how they benchmarked, on several of those games some scenes or maps run at nice solid 99% utilization.. I doubt they would have played a 20min session per benchmark. BF3 was probably ran in SP mode, F1 2011 result seems to be missing for Clevo 7970m. Also, their Alienware 7970m is running with a slower CPU.
     
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    kingbobo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yea ignore the AW results, even though they're higher than the Clevo despite using a slower cpu. I'm just talking about the Clevo P170em 7970m vs the same with 680m as per their test systems.

    They themselves say the 7970m is held back by Enduro which is visible between the AW and the P170EM benchs, and the P170EM benchs are still way ahead of the 680m's....

    Something's not right there, it can't be surely?
     
    kingbobo, Aug 3, 2012
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    Vergeofinsanity81 Notebook Consultant

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    I stopped believing notebookcheck on their benchmarks. Real life performance is different. Take for example Arkham City. The average sounds right but when I am playing it stutters quite often. I ran a benchmark and minimum frame is 1fps!!! And it is all due to utilization.
     
    Vergeofinsanity81, Aug 15, 2012
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    Because the GTX680M's stock memory bandwidth is only 115.2GB, however there's a lot of headroom.
     
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    notebookcheck.net has pretty off fps numbers on a regular basis
     
    fenryr423, Aug 15, 2012
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