The 680m thread where no one talks about it's red competitor.

[SeriousCat]

Just sold my XPS L702X and am looking to buy a new laptop with a 680m.

Any new reviews and analysis would be much appreciated.

[OblastSRT4]

You may have better luck in the "What notebook should I buy" section.

[SeriousCat]

Sorry, should have clarified.

I'm sure on the laptop I want, I would just like to read some further analysis on the 680m.

[KCETech1]

You may have better luck in the "What notebook should I buy" section.

best advice, ALOT of it comes down to what you will be using your system other for than gaming. give WNSIB a go

Sorry, should have clarified.

I'm sure on the laptop I want, I would just like to read some further analysis on the 680m.

great gaming card, fairly cool running from what I hear, as well as expensive. Slower in many CUDA Apps than the 580m/675m and even slower yet in OpenCL.

Gaming = good
Pro Apps = BAD!!

[SlickDude80]

Just sold my XPS L702X and am looking to buy a new laptop with a 680m.

Any new reviews and analysis would be much appreciated.

as far as benches go, the 680m will get you the highest possible numbers. There is about a 300-400 3dmark11 point difference between the typical higher overclock in the 680m vs the card we can't mention in this thread lol....so 6800 vs 7150...the highest I've seen the 7970m get on 3dmark11 is over 7200 (edit: 7200 with tesselation on, i've seen almost 7800 without tess)...while the highest I've seen the 680m get is 7600

As far as fps in games go, it really depends on the game...some games favor amd, some nvidia, so it is best to buy for the game that you are interested in. You should ask which card is better in a certain game and either look it up in reviews or someone here will point you in the right direction

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

and another:

Test: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M im Schenker P702

[masterchef341]

Isn't the 7970m a better choice though?

edit: just messing with you guys

[SlickDude80]

Isn't the 7970m a better choice though?

both cards are +/- 5% so it sorta depends on your budget and what you're comfortable with buying

EDIT...hahaha, i know you were joking, but i had to answer it anyways lol

[thief1958]

Alienware Canada would not be shipping any of their laptops with a 680M untill the 19th of July, ..and just a few days ago I was getting impatient. I might just buy / customize an M17X with a 7970M. The $300 dollar cheaper price seem not bad.

I have no problem OC'ing with either card really...

But really getting impatient with the long wait for the 680M.

[SeriousCat]

Understood. Thanks so much for your input, I really appreciate it.

I feel the same having waited this long for the 680m in the Clevo, now I just need to pull the trigger and buy the thing.

[thief1958]

Just now AW.ca will ship both cards not 'till the 20th, .. So I'm going green obviously..