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

Nice, The FFXIV scores are very comparable to my desktop GTX570 system.

I'm still debating the $295, so reading everything I can find on both the 680m and 7970...

 

Dx 11.1 ftw. This is one point you cant argue, the 680m has it, 7970m doesnt. Nuff said.

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I just noticed how you stated that FPS becomes "unstable" what is meant by that? I get occasional jumps or stutters even at stock speeds. Is this what you're referring to?

 

throttlestop 5.00 beta 1 does not support the i7 3610qm..At least not in my laptop

 

Are you sure? I have it running fine on mine tho It's a 3610QM too. Of course TRL and TPL are locked as it's a QM model, only XM model is unlocked.

 

FFXIV the actual game causes the driver to crash in both drivers 302.71 and 304.79, I know you don't play it but just a small note before getting a GTX680M

 

Lost Planet 2 Benchmark DX11 everything maxed, including AA would be nice.

It's pretty taxing. Here's the results for my 6970M @ stock:



24.8fps in TEST A.



20.2fps in TEST B.

 

Everything max (CSAA32X) at stock clock:




Test A




Test B




Temperature after both runs @ stock

 

I still call this speculation. I say this because the initial benches vs what the latest threads on this forum providing 680m benchmarks seem to be a good bit different. I am thinking with some driver improvements this should not be an issue down the road. My girlfriends laptop is currently crapping out so I may be moving my mother of all laptop purchase to just after the new year, and be picking up a 150EM for us to share in the mean time. It will be a really basic 150em, but a 150em none the less. But, I am liking the fact that by then the 270WM remake will be out the 370, etc. Plus driver support for the 680m should be well sorted by then as well as some CAD user experience out there to let me know if this card will let me game and get through my CAD classes in school at the same time.

 

Sorry in OpenCL the 680m is HORRID specific in Luxmark. and in CUDA it fluxuates between a bit better than a 580 and WORSE as well. Since im away from my main machine with all my benchamrks, tests and tests from others I will post those later on.

but for now if you scroll down to CAD applications in this review
Review GeForce GTX 680M vs. Radeon HD 7970M - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

and here is current info on the CUDA side
Benchmarking the new Kepler (GTX 680) — GPU Software Blog

and a debate from earlier

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...ate-amd-7970m-vs-nvidia-675m.html#post8611250

I can however hands on confirm that the Mercury render engine in CS6 for photoshop/Illistrator and Premier Pro is about 120% faster on a 7970 compared to a 680m as I was recently at a trade show for video editors/broadcators in Vancouver where we were testing out a 680m in a NON SLI config M18X

I attached a desktop chart I had handy to show in the desktop side the gtx580 takes a big hit over its predecessor in Lux. the second chart is easy to figure if you remember the 680m is an underclocked 670 and the 7970 is a slightly underclocked 7870.

 

Chugging along with my benchmarks. Taking me longer than usual, just too many other things going on in my life atm.

 

Tera mmorpg youtube footage including fps in my sig benchmarks.

 

I have to force vSync off in the nVidia control panel for Skyrim. The iPresentInterval=0 does not work.

Also, the ENBInjector has ZERO effect on Skyrim. I tried with and without the dx9 dll's in the Skyrim directory.

 

Those results are impressive, seeing as how the max AA is would let me set my 6970M to was MSAA8X. You'd probably be way over 60fps at that small of an AA setting.

 

My 680M will be here in a matter of hours while I'm typing this so I will give GTA IV a bench. I hope the 680M gives that one a nice boost even though I know how CPU intensive it is.

 

Nice man, once I get mine back from RMA I'll rejoin the GTX680M club .

 

My review is up in case anyone is interested. I don't feel I gave it as much of a downtown job as I wanted, but will be adding to it, just didn't want to delay any longer. The only game I *DIDN'T* test yet was GTA IV.

 

Ive joined team green. Malibal is letting me exchange my 7970m for a 680m for the cost of the upgrade. Pretty nice of them. I just had to reformat again due to a driver error that stemmed from a random black screen. Last straw!

 

Wow, that's pretty awesome that theure letting you exchange it. They shipping the card to you?

 

I hope the RMA doesn't take too long. I've installed mine now but none of the Drivers will install, even with modified .inf. I think you used 302.71 right?

 

yes im pretty excited! they even included a return shipping label in the box for my 7970m.

 

Sweet! Good job Malibal!

Cost of the 680M doesn't see so harsh when all your paying is the upgrade cost right? Lol.. (during this transaction anyways)

 

GTA IV shows as 57 fps in the benchmark maxed out (sliders 100), but in game it still performs like crap. It is smoother than the GTX 485M but I guess the CPU really must be the most important in that one no matter how powerful a GPU you have (as mentioned many times before).

Compare this to the better optimized and just as vast sandbox styled SR3, I get around 60 fps maxed if I disable the lighting effects and 40-60 fps with it enabled. This is at AA max and my temps during gaming haven't gone beyond 68C yet.

 

I'll run GTA IV on my machine and let you know what I get and play it a bit and see if it performs like crap or not.

 

I had to use the -norestrictions in commandline.txt to get it to work without complaining about the 4GB VRAM. I haven't played it for long so will play more later but so far, I'm not impressed.

 

Sorry to bring back the thread in dust but I found something interesting about the latest driver 310.70. The FFXIV benchmark scores in quote was done under driver 302.71 (first Clevo GTX680M driver) and I ran it again with 310.70 at stock clock and this is the result:

720P

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1080P

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That's 38% increase in 720P mode and 42% increase in 1080P mode, I used a different CPU this time but CPU alone wouldn't bring this big of an improvement. Perhaps the driver?