Updates on Clevo/Sager/Schenker Order with a GTX 680M

Hi Guys,

The countdown for me is coming to a close.

I wanted to start a thread here to announce any updates with regards to the Clevo's with Nvidia's high end video card.

As soon as I receive mine, benchmarks and stuff will go up here.

But for now my estimated ship time to Queensland is 30th of June and then will be atleast the first week of July before I receive my laptop.

Does anyone else have an ETA for their Clevo with a GTX 680M?



Below I will post up a bunch of stock AMD 7970M Scores and will upload the GTX 680M next to them later on

Radeon 7970M Stock clocks 3DMark11 Run with i7 3610QM


Radeon 7970M Stock clocks 3DMark06 Run with i7 3610QM


Radeon 7970M Stock clocks 3DMarkVantage Run with i7 3610QM

 

Niiice can't wait

 

My ETA is when the 3D version of the 170EM comes around, when I will most likely opt for the 680M, thus I am highly interested in this thread.

Any news on the 3d version of this laptop?

 

In regards to 3D, i believe that the option has popped up at XoticPC recently, but it will not be available for atleast another 4 weeks.

Though, i have been looking into the 120hz 3D screen that was offered on the P170HM3 before, I was thinking that might be a good alternative.

 

I wonder if it will have optimus, i dont think there has ever been a laptop with 3d and optimus.

 

No, it won't have optimus, but I am pretty sure it will still pull 2 hours on a charge. Which is more than enough for me.

I have 2 batteries for my current laptop and they are enough to do my work during those long trips.

By the way, batteries are at Clevo something like $50 each, but resellers charge an arm and a leg for one.

 

It's the first thing you read on the Nvidia site.
Plus read the supported technologies on the left.
So according to the manufacturer, yes, it does have optimus.

 

Yes, the card has Optimus, but as far as some resellers have wrote here, it will be disabled on the 3D models.

 

Might want to update this thread as THIS thread follows on with new information

- MySN already has the GTX 680M hands on!

 

I got Deja Vu clicking on that link

 

oh.. I literally cried, link fixed now going to leave the original post for the lolz

I meant THIS thread

 

Someone is going to be reading this thread late at night when they are tired and will never get past this post.

They'll finally notice when they have like 45 tabs open of the same page.

 

But there are people like me who never go beyond the Clevo section of this forum.

 

I'm very curious how this card performs as well. I went with the 7970 though, and extra $300 was tough to swallow for an unknown benefit right now.

 

Oh, the $300 is completely unjustifiable unless you want to use 3d vision, you got the right card, no worries. The 680M will be at most 5% faster than the 7970M. I also expect the price of the 680M to go down a bit after 1st of July.

 

You can technically use 3D with the 7970m you simply need a 3rd party 3D converter, for instance some of the Samsung screens that are 7 and 9 series has a built in technology for 2D to 3D conversion.

But yes the 3D technology with nvidia is much better so I personally went with that. Also even if the 170em gets a 3D capable screen its most likely not going to have light boost which from what I've read without it the colours are going to be beyond dark and dull, probably better off investing in a external monitor.

 

I've actually read through the whole 7970m vs 680m thread, it gave me so many headaches... this cards better, this cards cheaper, this card can do this do that.

I just wanted this thread here for when a CONSUMER receives a card we can post up legit scores unlike the scores on legitreviews and notebook check, though I have seen the scores with the MSI GT70 Laptop, that is with a 3920XM processor which gives a slight advantage, I would like to see the scores with a more reasonable cpu such as the 3610 or the 3720 quad mobile.

So far my prediction is either ~500 points difference in 3Dmark vantage and ~300 points difference in 06 and ~200 points difference in 11.

Though we will have to wait and see the difference in real world performance in games.

 

I predict it won't matter for gameplay. I don't play 3DMark

 

"I don't play 3DMark" <--- classic.

 

+1 Words of wisdom......................

 

Notebook check has first benchmarks on the 680M. It's slower than the 7970M.

 

Strange...
Looks like some games faster with AMD than Nvidia and vice-versa.

Link here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M.72679.0.html
Yikes MaxPayne3 - 46% faster with 7970m
COD MW3 - 7970M -14% slower than 680M
Battlefield 3 - 3% difference between two
Batman - 3% advantage to 680M
Crysis 2 +15% advantage to 680M
Metro 2033 - +11% advantage to 7970M
Diablo 3 - 680M 27% faster than 7970m


Alienware users posting this:
3DMark 11
7970M: P5600
GTX 680M: P6282

Diablo 3:
Ultra, everything maxed
7970M: 100.8FPS
GTX 680M: 138FPS

Skyrim:
Ultra High
7970M: 55.6FPS
GTX 680M: 72FPS
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/672130-first-review-alienware-m17x-gtx-680m.html#
Looks like it's a tiit-4-tat competition. If the 7970m is cheaper then why go 680M? Seems like a recurrence of 6990m v 580M war.
I prefer AMD

 

yep perf. wise its just a color preference pretty much. it all comes down to cost then

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I'm just curious where are you getting your numbers from? For instance where are you getting that 46% difference in max payne?

Currently until users get there hands physically on the card we have no guarantee of knowing whether the performance is true or not. Especially with notebook check, I don't trust that site for gaming performance whatsoever.

Multiple sites and reviewers listing one number over another, this is a poor way of judging card vs. card.

 

Very true, they might run at difference resolutions etc. they don't always confirm every testing environment they test in, so we all have to wait for user tests, hopefully me

 

i think the alienware laptops can disable optimus, giving the 680m higher performance.

 

On Alienware You can disable enduro so just wondering if they have that option with optimus
clevo should have that option to.

 

My Malibal Satori P170EM order with the 680M switched to a status of "processed" last Friday. Although I don't know what that status means, it is at least movement.

As far as the "7970 vs 680m" side discussion, I paid the price simply because I am loyal to Nvidia due to some horrible past ATI/AMD issues (which seems to still be the case looking at that wonderful mega thread on the 7970 failures), and I wanted a kepler chip that I wouldn't need to upgrade. $500 is a reasonable amount to pay for a graphics card mobile or otherwise which is at or close to the top of the benchmarks. The 7970 is a bargain, but to each their own.

 

that's good to know that people outside of the Alienware M17x or M18x orders are seeing some movement on their orders, but it seems to be mostly with the 17 inch laptops. Is there some known issue with 680M on 15 inch that's why there are no movements on those order? Anyone with XoticPC is getting update on their order with 680M?

 

I look forward to your posts in the mega threads on 680m failures then.

Good. Be fun to read your impressions.

 

That wonderful what where?

Link?

 

Lots of threads at the top of the list today from those that had 0 issues with the 7970 and love the card, focus on the positives I say, it will be a better world. The gripe thread I was referring to was just the 7970 owners thread titled "Update on Radeon 7970m (Sager/Resellers)" at 217 pages, when I was considering the card, the 25 or so pages back I had enough time to read were backorder/heat/performance/enduro issues.

However, asked Malibal for an update this morning, got a response in about 2 minutes:

"You have 680M which is a preorder, they are due to arrive early next week, so your laptop will ship shortly after that."

Fingers crossed.

 

@CrumBum: impatient to read your review

 

Just FYI the 680M are now in stock at Sager....!

 

WHAT, that is awesome haha, can't wait on word from my reseller!

 

There's someone on here who's says they're getting their 680M in today or tomorrow.. Paid like $1200 for it! Yikes! But it should be a sweet little review

 

you mean this lucky guy, i'm so jealous haha.

 

I know some are already getting theirs shipped, etc. So probably old news, but I just got the email from Malibal on my P170EM with the GTX680M "Your Notebook Is Now In Production" - Ordered 6/19, so just a little longer now.

 

Those 680M's yeah.. yeah they're about.. Nice cards.

 

Yeah Scott, now if you could test in a P1x0HM and then start selling it as an upgrade for us P1x0HM owners living in Europe, that would be even nicer...

 

They just work on P170HM & P150HM out of the box...

 

good to be an HM user these days! yehaw

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Just got an update from my reseller, my system will be shipping mid this week!

 

waiting for custom clearance,should get my beast this week!

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Hi guys, could anyone please confirm that a GTX 680M works on a P150HM (np8150)?

 

tencharacterslol

 

lol whoops missed that bit thanks