Computex 2012 | GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70
The battle for the top graphics crown continues between AMD and Nvidia with the recent announcement of the GTX 680M. The previous red Radeon HD 7970M king will soon be passing the torch to the green Nvidia team if these quick preview benchmarks are any indication.
Notebookcheck is on-site at Computex 2012 and were first in line to benchmark the new 28-nm GeForce GTX 680M. The provided 17.3-inch MSI GT70 test machine was a powerful beast as expected. While we already have a separate MSI GT70 model in our labs with a Core i7-3610QM and GTX 670M graphics, the one on display at Computex easily takes the cake as top performer.
The GT70 here at Computex 2012 was sporting a 2.9 GHz Core i7-3920XM CPU and GTX 680M graphics with GDDR5 RAM. Interestingly, the MSI model allows for overclock of up to 4 or 5 percent with Nvidia's new Dynamic Overclock. While MSI claimed a 3DMark Vantage score of 24000 points with PhysX and overclocking active, our own test returned only 21952 points with PhysX and overclocking disabled. Impressive nonetheless.
According to MSI, this particular model won't see a release likely until at least two months later or sometime August-September. As usual, expect a full review from Notebookcheck as the launch nears.
Referencing our own database of GPUs, the Radeon HD 7970M returns about 21674 (total) and 21661 (GPU) in 3DMark Vantage. In other words, the GTX 680M may be much closer to the Radeon HD 7970M in performance depending on the task at hand. In Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic, the GTX 680M in the MSI notebook was able to score 1661 points with a maximum of 65.9 FPS.
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| #6 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | Huskerguy, 07:01 19.02 |
I want to use this laptop so bad but the video card keeps crashing. I've been going back and forth with nvidia about the issue and they're telling me to download all the old drivers for this laptop from msi. My benchmarks are ridiculously low, like 2500 on 3dmark and the core clock is only reading 324. ... | |
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| #5 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | Ette Lirvag, 17:26 24.08 |
I just got my MSI GT70 with this NVIDIA GTX 680M card, but there are several issues:- In Windows Experience Index, only the Intel Video is recognized, NO SIGN of the dedicated card as before in all models! MSI said this is NORMAL and no video card will be shown. This, of course, brings down the Experience Index as well, significantly!!!- I've run SEVERAL benchmark tests in 3D Mark Vantage, but barely got over the 20,000 mark! - In the "Heaven" benchmark, again, only the Intel video showed up, no sign anywhere of the dedicated high-end NVIDIA card. Before you ask, YES, I've confirmed it that it is in the unit installed, but the program wouldn't see it. - Other CPU and GPU programs, yet again, only the Intel chipset shows up.- There was one program (I already removed it and can't recall the name), the NVIDIA was listed, but no memory bank or capacity was recognized.- MSI told me that there is NO WAY of activating the 680M card to be the main, prime and only video card in the system. Then what the heck is it around for anyways?- The Intel chipset indicates only 64MB of dedicated video! GREAT!!! I've got a laptop with a great video card, but I can't use or activate it for video playback or multi-display situations.In summary, I'm looking for a way to ACTIVATE this video card to be the primary display provider instead of the Intel chipset. If anyone has ideas how to do that, please post a reply. Thanks!... | |
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| #4 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | Roudy, 02:51 24.07 |
If this is true then the HD7970M seems to be unbeatable. 8)... | |
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| #3 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | Robert, 23:06 07.06 |
MSI is making high end gaming laptop now, nice... | |
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| #2 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | taranoa, 16:09 07.06 |
Since the GTX 680m is only capable to achieve about 1600 points without any tesselation there will be a huge difference in performance as the HD7970m got 1600 points with enabled tessalation with use of a 2820 cpu.http://www.aw-community.com/forum/f15/fehler-awardspace-2682-4.html... | |
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| #1 Re: GeForce GTX 680M benchmaked on MSI GT70 | Jojo Kracko, 14:52 06.06 |
This 680M version better have Optimus enabled this time if they want to make a sale to me.... | |
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