AMD 7970m vs GTX 680m

[Roken911]

So we've come to the conclusion that we have no idea what Nvidia is doing?

Sounds good.

[jaybee83]

aaah finally, what a relief now lets wait and see what FACTS will surface as to the 68xM

[capitainealbator]

Hello!

I just would like to know if ATI will produce a HD7990m chip card...
I could buy now an HD7970m card whereas last year, we were having the choice between two chips: 6970m and 6990m...

Thanks very much for your answers.
Capt'ain, from France.

[Roken911]

It probably won't be for a while. They'll most likely wait for whatever the hell Nvidia releases. If it competes with the 7970M, I don't see why they wouldn't release a 7990M a few months (maybe less) later.

[BlackStar2012]

Hello!

I just would like to know if ATI will produce a HD7990m chip card...
I could buy now an HD7970m card whereas last year, we were having the choice between two chips: 6970m and 6990m...

Thanks very much for your answers.
Capt'ain, from France.

Tbh all we can say is rumors.
In my opinion I wouldn't think so because 7970m is 100w which is the max tdp for laptop gfx so far so personally I don't think ati would make another card but then again it is just an opinion :/

[SlickDude80]

Got my 7970M today and its mind blowing, like everyone else is saying, it makes my laptop feel like a desktop. OMG this thing is fast. I got say well done AMD, even from an Nvidia fanboy like me.

Congratz bro! Enjoy it

Need to run at maximum speed for benching, at the risk of bricking their card? That's like saying I need to eat as many hot dogs as I can in order to prove that I can. People do it, and they're only harming themselves, but "need" doesn't come into it.

You obviously don't know the guys on the m17x forum...and yes, there were multiple bricked 580m's on the .92v bios. It is sport for them...and they will do it at risk of bricking the card

Benchmarks. Post them. I'm a Nvidia fanboy too, I need to believe

THis I believe is the fastest single card laptop on the planet: almost 7K 3dmark11 Tessellation ON. With drivers, this is a 7K laptop...close to 8k in 3dmark11 with tess off

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6951 3DMarks

[capitainealbator]

To Roken911 and BlackStar2012: thanks very much for your answers.
Best regards from France
Capt'ain

[Kevin]

Tbh all we can say is rumors.
In my opinion I wouldn't think so because 7970m is 100w which is the max tdp for laptop gfx so far so personally I don't think ati would make another card but then again it is just an opinion :/

But don't forget that AMD said the 6970M was 100W TDP as well, but then the 6990M appeared.

Realistically, we have to know that AMD will deliver something faster than the 7970M, before the end of the year. Whether it's a 7990M or 8970M, who knows, but it will be here in Q3 or Q4.

[vilmeister]

Gaming benchmarks for the 7970M up! Scroll down...

AMD Radeon HD 7970M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

[Meaker]

6970M was a cut down chip and cut down chips don't really gain much in power for having units disabled. So activating some shaders and a small clock bump on a more mature process was (relatively) easy.

The 7970M on the other hand is fully unlocked and clocked fairly high.