What games/benchmarks would you be interested in seeing on GTX 680m?

Just curious what games everyone would be interested in seeing performance results on the nVidia GTX 680m? I have one in transit and would like to test games or benchmarks users are interested in.

Here's what I have in line so far (in no particular order):

3DMark06
3DMark Vantage
3DMark11
Metro 2033
Battlefield 3
Skyrim
DiRT 3
Max Payne 3
STALKER Pripyat
Crysis
Crysis 2
Heaven Unigine
HAWX 2
Just Cause 2
Resident Evil 5
Batman Arkham City
Mass Effect 3
GTA IV#
Starcraft II#
ArmA II#
DCS-A10C#
Witcher II#
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier#

# = items added due to request. Just because I list it does not guarantee I will be able to test it if I can't get access to the game.

I ordered a system from LPC-Digital with the following configuration:

Sager NP9150
15.6" Full HD 16:9 LED-Backlit Super Clear MATTE type (not 95%)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 4GB GDDR5 Memory
Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor
8GB DDR3 1600MHz (2x4GB)*
Remove All Branding
256GB Crucial M4 SSD*
512GB Crucial M4 SSD (in optical drive bay)*
Remove DVDRW Drive and Install Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy
Intel Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN

*These items I am installing myself and had laptop shipped without these items.

I also plan on offering my thoughts on the machine on a whole in a full fledged review.

And please, no negative comments on how the 680m is more expensive than the 7970m with similar performance. I understand this completely. I made the decision on many factors and Larry at LPC-Digital was able to fit the machine within my budget. Plus part of it is my insatiable curiosity for new technology. I'm a huge advocate for AMD. I was their cheerleader for the Llano line of APU's. But I'm ready to move back to top end hardware.

 

I am also considering getting the 680M but not sure yet. Anyway, I would love to see GTA IV benchmarks on this one. I thought you already had an NP8170 laptop with a GTX 485M though? or am I confusing you with someone else?

You will love the 512GB M4 SSD, I got mine back when it cost a lot more. Although still expensive, it is great to see the price has gone down so much by almost 50% more or less.

 

Will add GTA IV to the list.

I got the 256GB for $180 and 512GB for $340. That's $520 for 768GB of fast, reliable SSD storage, you can't beat it really.

Yes I bought an NP8170 but sold it a few months later. Ended up with my HP DV6z for a good year, then got this NP6110 and now the NP9170. I should be set for a while, although I can never resist new technology and testing/torturing it.

 

I ordered a very similar system. I went with the upgraded screen and one step up processor, but none of those massive SSDs for me . Like you, I've got RAM and a smaller SSD to install myself once the machine arrives.

It appears you will be receiving yours first, as I was only able to place my order Friday. I doubt any work was done over the weekend, and would be surprised if it got out this week (mainly due to the 4th of July on Wednesday),

Crysis and Crysis 2 would be good to see though, along with STALKER as mentioned and of course 3DMark11.

 

Looks like a solid list of benchmarks. If it's possible, could you also do TESIV:Oblivion, just for the heck of it?

 

As mentioned before I would like to see GTA IV and this is a weird one, but what about the sims 2?

 

I don't own the Sims 2 unfortunately, and sorry don't think I will ever see the need so unless I get it for free, won't bother to benchmark.

And it's not technically in transit as I noted. It *should* be in transit this week. We'll see how that goes.

I think I will request to have this thread moved to the general games forum because there are a few other laptops with 680m. (MSI, Clevo, Alienware)

 

I was pretty sure the ODD was only SATA II...

 

Tera online mmorpg(its not the heaviest game, but curious if it has compatibility issues(performance-wize) there is an nvidia tera profile though.

Keep in mind its about 25gb


and battlefield 3, preferably a B2K 64player map @ Ultra 4x MSAA..

all @ 1920*1080 resolution of course.

 

I am aware of that, and that's ok. Main SATA drive and mSATA are SATA III, Intel chipset allows for two SATA III and four SATA II. But can't quite find a 256GB or 512GB mSATA drive for less than $180 or $340, or low power consumption SATA II 256GB for less than $180. I am considering using the 512GB as my main drive though and 256GB as extra storage, that way most of my apps and data are on the main SATA III drive. Heck I may just forego the 256GB altogether. Maybe add the Blu-ray back to the order, but I have an external BD player and use it only 1-2 times a month.

 

StarCraft II, Arma II, and DCS A-10C would be awesome. Those are the three games I want to play most of all. I just need to decide between the 675M and 680M.

 

Both the 7970M and the 680M are anywhere from 40-70%+ faster than the 675M. At the very least most games will be 50% faster and that 675M is just a rebranded GTX 485M. It is also 40nm Vs 28nm tech too. If I was going to buy a new laptop, the 675M wouldn't be on my list unless I really couldn't afford the extra (7970M isn't a huge extra cost).

 

Try Ghost recon: Future soldier
I had stable fps (30+ fps) for the first 12 missions and the then the last 2 it started to go below 30fps. Final scene mission was running low 20's with 6990. Not sure if it's the game or a rushed attempt to finish the game by the programmers. Even the scrolling credits was 20 fps lol...
edit; just remove ambulent occlusions and much better...

Curious if 680M has fixed that with everything full/max
Also curious with crysis1 and 2, BF3, Max Payne 3 and 3dmark11.

 

Witcher II with ubersampling off, 1920x1080 and best playable setting. I am not sure what that would be. Also disable depth of field and motion blur. I still doubt you can run it on ultra and get 30fps on stock clocks. But lets give it a try

 

If you're testing Skyrim be sure to not only test it on "Ultra" since that's not stressing the 680m enough, at that setting the game will be CPU bottlenecked. Add an ENB mod like Opethfeldt6 ENB at Skyrim Nexus - Skyrim mods and community to stress the GPU!
If you use MSI Afterburner you need to shut it down while using the ENB, otherwise the game will most likely crash at launch.

 

Yay! I am very excited to read your review on the 680 man! How come u didn't pick Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor?

 

Will add those. I have DCS A-10, just haven't had any time to play. But will gladly give it a whirl to get a feeling for FPS at 1080p various detail levels. I can give SC2 a run but I highly doubt it will be restricted in any way.

Unless I can get GR:FS for really cheap I won't be able to do that one.

Sure. Will run that. Likely be somewhere in the beginning because I lost my save game, and won't have time to run through it much.

CPU limited? Really? Wow. Will take your advice though. (edit: I see this indicates even i7-3960X desktop Ivy Bridge CPU is limited)

No need that I can see. I don't need VT-d, and don't need the extra 300MHz for $160. If I had run with the 7970m I would have likely gotten it just because it would have fit in my budget.

 

Yeah I know, but its Bethesda's failure to use a that old engine for a 2011 game. The shadows are partly rendered in the CPU, thats why moving the Shadows in the games options from "Ultra" to "High" has a massive FPS gain and a nearly unnoticable loss of eye candy.

So be sure to use the ENB mod with SSAO & DoF, it will let your GPU shine

 

Thanks will definitely use that ENB mod. I may do a before/after anyhow. I usually benchmark the opening sequence because it's repeatable and consistent.

 

Man another new notebook?
Do whatever test Notebookcheck did. I`d really like to know if the test was faulty. Congrats with the 680M. A good choice indeed

When do you get the notebook?

 

Tera for me, if possible. Thanks

 

HTWingNut:

wow I thought you were going to use your 11.6" as your main laptop

Anyway can you do the same as your 11.6" review and put power consumption readings for each. Will +rep if you do. I want to see raw numbers of power consumption when gaming on ultra.

 

Yeah. Tough decision. But thought I'd be happy with a solid 15" as well. I'm hoping it ships this week, but we'll see.

Never played but will take a look. Considering recommended requirements are Core 2 Duo E6750, and GeForce 8800 GT I'm sure it's safe to say it'll obliterate the framerates.

Well, I thought so too, but decided on a machine with more power and a larger screen. I'm never happy. I'll only be happy when a 13" 1600x900 (preferably 1920x1080) with a GTX 660m with GDDR5 is released.

While this laptop can handle anything I throw at it, for productivity the resolution just sucks. Thought I could live with 1366x768 but if you want to multitask at all, it's just way too restrictive. I frequently have at least two windows open, one for reference and one for working on. The screen size is a bit small, but I could probably get away with the screen size if the resolution was higher.

I will definitely do a power consumption and thermals test again, along with real-time FPS graphs in the more restrictive games (i.e. BF3, Skyrim, Metro 2033, Max Payne 3, etc)

 

HTWingNut, do you still use your dv6z? Excited for you to get this Clevo, it is solid as a rock!

 

No, I don't use it so much any more. I'm working on setting it up as a home media device for my kids. The machine I have doing that chore right now is an old AMD Athlon64 desktop and it's loud and power hungry. The screen will basically get no use though, almost tempted to just remove the screen and sell it, but then if I ever want to use it as a laptop, there goes that idea. It's a very nice screen too.

 

You should look at my previous comment about Tera in this thread where I mention its more of a compatibility-depending kind of game. On paper it all looks good but irl it may be a total different story. Btw I just received my p170em with the 680m so if it's okay for you i'm willing to post some tera results in this topic for u once everything is installed here

edit: dvd 2/4 inserted.. ^^

 

Awesome dude. The more results of the 680M the better. Congrats with your new notebook

 

Congratz man, by the way the 304.79 does support GTX680M just the nvidia site didn't add it for the GTX680M, so it should be the newest driver for GTX680M right now

 

New review of the 680M

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/675454-new-gtx-680m-review-truth.html

 

Both card are pre-mature so any reviews are really invalid until drivers that utilize the full power of each card are released.

 

Someone PLEASE.... PRETTY PLEASE!!!!!!! Run any of the 3D CAD programs like Solidworks or ProE please!!! I'm hoping this card can be my dual purpose card for gaming and CAD,

 

Looking forwed to see how skyrim runs
It's my favorite game right now

Sent From My Rooted EVO 3D

 

FINAL FANTASY XIV Official Benchmark

Not that I play the game, but curious to see score...

 

If it is GPGPU, then Nvidia wants you to buy a Quadro. If you are running it off your CPU, then no problems I suspect.

 

Thanks for the reply but that's just it. We all know what they want to do or what we "should" do but I want to see what can physically be done. I've heard of guys running CAD programs just peachy on lesser cards so I'm praying this card will last me through college and then when I get to the point of doing very large assemblies I can either get a lappy with a Quadro or hopefully my employer will take care if it!!!!

 

Just out of curosity what's Quadro ?

Sent From My Rooted EVO 3D

 

Quadro is the nvidia equivalent of AMD's firepro series of cards designed for gpu computing.

gpgpu computing is much better on an amd card rather than the consumer geforce cards, otherwise i would get a quadro card.

 

if you are doing professional work the 7970m is better all around, not to mention cheaper.

The 680m is so bad that on that front... like 30% worse then the 580m lol

 

GPU usage hovering around 40~60% on the GTX680M even on high.

FFXIV benchmark Low 1280x720


FFXIV benchmark high 1920x1080

 

lol it shows the Intel HD 4000 as the GPU in the benchs

 

Yep FFXIV doesn't know what's optimus

 

But impressive that the HD 4000 reaches that score

[3000-4499] Fairly High Performance
Capable of running the game on default settings. Consider switching to a higher resolution depending on performance.

 

@HTWingNut,

Be sure to dl ThrottleStop 5.00. It seems to stop the cpu from leaving the turbo boost mode. My combined score on 3DMark11 went up from 5678 to 6117. Make sure you use ThrottleStop 5.00 .

Without ThrottleStop 5.00

Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P7276 3DMarks

With ThrottleStop 5.00

Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P7373 3DMarks

 

FFXIV would constantly skip and performance was not where I think it should have been. Must not detect the demo right.

 

The way nvidia panel sees FFXivWinBenchmark.exe is it's for iGPU, you'll need to open nvidia panel and assign FFXivWinBenchmark.exe to Nvidia gpu, I've had this problem with my GTX680M too.

 

I just checked and it default to nVidia GPU.

Thanks how did you manage to overclock your GPU to 883.6?

 

svl7 modded it for me

 

Ah HA! BIOS mod FTW! Was 883.6 a tuned speed or was there limited options for OC?

 

It's a tuned speed, after 883.6 the fps in 3DMark11 becomes unstable for mine.

 

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