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    How is the 7970m with non game software?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by allyn2, Aug 12, 2012.

  1. allyn2

    allyn2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,
    first time poster here. I have a sager p170 em coming in a week or two and i am worried about the 7970m. I mainly play cod4, but use a lot of productivity software like adobe suite etc. is the 7970m friendly with non game software?
     
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    AftershockPC Company Representative

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    Yup it's supposed to perform better than the kepler cards for 3d modelling, not too sure about adobe, but the new gpus should be more then sufficient for those.

    For more info, you can check out AMD Radeon HD 7970M - Notebookcheck.net Tech notebookcheck's benchmarks (I believe it should be the specviewperf ones)
     
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    allyn2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks for replying !!!
     
    allyn2, Aug 14, 2012
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    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    mine is not in a clevo, but an m17x and in OpenCL applications like CS6 it tends to mop the floor with my 680m I am trying.
    but specperf and smallux benchmarks are a good indicator
     
    KCETech1, Aug 14, 2012
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    Where can we find the smallux benchmark KCETech1?

    edit: NM, you have to register here...
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 15, 2012
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    here is one for desktop cards, the 680m is an underclocked 670, the 7970m is an underclocked 7870

    but the spoiler is its significantly over 100% faster than the 680m
     
    KCETech1, Aug 15, 2012
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    RogerCD Notebook Guru

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    I have a P150EM with HD 7970M and did the same benchmark in SmallLuxGPU 2.0d5 and got a maximum of 1400K rays per second.
     
    RogerCD, Aug 16, 2012
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    So LuxMark is the GUI version of SLG then right?
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 16, 2012
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    Exactly so HT
    LuxMark - LuxRender Wiki

    which is about on par, the 7870 gives 16500, a 7970m is a 7870 underclocked 15% so, 16500 * 0.85 = 14025
    my 7970m stock is 1460, and i have OC'd it up to 16900

    in comparison a 680m im playing with gives me 5184. a difference of 2.7 times faster for the 7970m ( all numbers at stock clocks )
     
    KCETech1, Aug 16, 2012
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