First Proper W880CU with GTX480M Review Online!

[KipCoo]

Wow, review basically shows why the GTX480m is a bad buy.

[Bytales]

285M faster than 5870MR... Well, it's tom's hardware...

It may be because nvidia always had better tuned drivers. That's one of the reason i am aiming towards an nvidia solution. Hopefuly prices will go down, the price for a 480m is overkill, and maybe something like a 460m will appear in the time to come.

[KipCoo]

It may be because nvidia always had better tuned drivers. That's one of the reason i am aiming towards an nvidia solution. Hopefuly prices will go down, the price for a 480m is overkill, and maybe something like a 460m will appear in the time to come.

"Nvidia Always had better tuned drivers" - Based on what exactly? Aren't Nvidia cards notorious for dying out, hence the oven bake method...

[alexnvidia]

"better tuned drivers" is very much debatable. both ati and nvidia regularly fine tune their drivers and they are very much on par with each other in this aspect. i would argue that nvidia currently has better support for mobile gpu drivers with their verde driver program. but ati is catching up too.. much of ati driver complains are from M17x 5870CF owners right now.

on a side note, the dying batch of nvidia cards has nothing much to do with their driver support (or the way their driver works). that is a manufacturing defect and it's affecting at the moment, 8000 series (or perhaps some 9000 series) mostly mobile gpus.

[Quicklite]

Wow, review basically shows why the GTX480m is a bad buy.

Agreed... Unless you really need high-res DX11 on the move, settling for a MR 5870 is enough for most; while a desktop is far less costy solution to yield the same performance.

[Aikimox]

This is the first review I see when the reviewer is actually trying to find some excuses...Wow.
We already know that without OC'ing both 480M and MR5870 behave similarly in games (if tested in the same laptop).
Wonder how to get 19%?
Test gaming FPS @ unrealistically low resolutions
I'm only interested in max pre-tests and ultra settings @ max resolutions.
Who will ever play any game on a 17" screen @ non-native res?

[hottestzephyr]

notebookjournal.de also test gtx480m too and get same result with tomshardware. may be both sites got something from nividia

edit: here you go http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/...heck-nkmo-1179

[Aikimox]

They have to get same results. Whether they are paid by Nvidia or not is not important. What important is to realize that "official" reviews have to be always taken with a grain of salt. Every new iteration will receive some amount of bashing and praise and the reviews will show 10-20% performance increase.
Whether or not it's true in real life, we're welcome to discover in our own rigs running our preferred games.

Generally, all the performance talk is a pure weapons grade balognium.
We are all biased, and seeing how some argue about pro's and con's (based on a couple of freshly-hatched reviews) without ever owning ATI or Nvidia GPU equipped laptops, is funny. But ask those who had both and you'll most likely receive a simple answer - There's no absolute card.
Too many factors influence our opinions.
Personally, I don't even look at the performance levels any more (even a single 260M would handle all the games I like), but rather @ the general stability of the system, load temps in extreme conditions, DPC latency issues, stuttering, drivers, etc.
Those kinds of "reviews" will appear when more owners do their biased analysis and testing.
But it's nonetheless fun to watch and speculate...