AMD basically tells Nvidia to bring it on the mobile front.

[Meaker10]

Specs for the HD7970M were released by dell.

HD7870: 1280 shaders, 32 rops, 256bit GDDR5 @ 1000/1200
HD7970M: 1280 shaders, 32 rops, 256bit GDDR5 @ 850/1200

Ouch, quite a punch at 100W.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Laptops with GTX 675M are starting to pop up on the web but the real challenge for the HD7970M will be the GTX 680M. The fight is on indeed.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M.72679.0.html

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M is a high-end, DirectX 11.1 compatible graphics card that will be announced in summer 2012 for laptops. At the time of announcement it will be the fastest laptop GPU by Nvidia based on the Kepler architecture in 28nm. It will most likely be based on the GK106 or GK104 chip and, according to rumors, sport 768 shaders and a 256 Bit memory bus with GDDR5 graphics memory.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'm not really a fan of portable aircraft carriers...but it should be fun to keep an eye on

 

[f1sherman]

pretty sure the fight on mobile is already over for this GPU cycle

it's just that we haven't been informed on the results

 

[VulgarDisplay]

If we got 6870/gtx560 level performance at decent power consumption levels for laptops this round that would be the true win. Looking forward to some reviews as the mobile chips hit the market.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

pretty sure the fight on mobile is already over for this GPU cycle

it's just that we haven't been informed on the results

This

 

[Meaker10]

If we got 6870/gtx560 level performance at decent power consumption levels for laptops this round that would be the true win. Looking forward to some reviews as the mobile chips hit the market.

A 7870 at 850mhz is faster than a 7850, 6950 levels of performance.

I'm not really a fan of portable aircraft carriers...but it should be fun to keep an eye on

I'm going to put one in my machine

 

[Concillian]

If we got 6870/gtx560 level performance at decent power consumption levels for laptops this round that would be the true win. Looking forward to some reviews as the mobile chips hit the market.

That 7970m listed, if specs are true, is effectively a desktop 7870 at 7850 clocks. In other words, quite significantly faster than GTX560 / HD6870 level of performance.

 

[Zebo]

I'll do no games on laptops. crappy monitor, crappy keyboard, loud like a jet, crappier gfx, battery life problem, cost problem, etc. I use an old t60 and x200 thinkpad no games laptops for work & browse and real computer for games.

 

[Meaker10]

Oh Zebo, don't talk about something you don't understand, it just makes you look silly.

 

[Dark Shroud]

I'll stick with AMD for my mobile GPUs they haven't done wrong by me. I'm not going anywhere near Nvidia mobile for sometime after Bump Gate especially after the way they handled it.

 

[blackened23]

I'll do no games on laptops. crappy monitor, crappy keyboard, loud like a jet, crappier gfx, battery life problem, cost problem, etc. I use an old t60 and x200 thinkpad no games laptops for work & browse and real computer for games.

Good to know, thanks for sharing

 

[hawtdawg]

Ive had no issues with the 4870's in my AW. In fact, i have them overclocked and overvolted and they never even break 80C

 

[Meaker10]

 

[Soleron]

Is there an analysis of how much the Kepler scheduling offload to the CPU impacts performance? With weaker CPUs on laptops, Kepler /might/ be held back from its full performance.

 

[Meaker10]

Considering that mobile CPUs are much closer to their desktop brothers in performance (especially with ivy bridge) compared to GPUs then I would seriously doubt it.

Latest benches (from a forum member with a card)

Card is at stock clocks

 

[Meaker10]

So my 7970M is on order, i'll be very interested to test it against 7850 and 7870 desktop cards.

 

[jacktesterson]

I've owned laptops with a 6970m and Crossfired 6990m's

I was happy with both. Neither were loud for me anyways.

Not to mention SB i7 performance is close to stock desktop SB performance.

Mobile performance is finally taking off.

 

[Rvenger]

Considering that mobile CPUs are much closer to their desktop brothers in performance (especially with ivy bridge) compared to GPUs then I would seriously doubt it.

Latest benches (from a forum member with a card)

Card is at stock clocks

7870 performance

 

[Meaker10]

Now it is overclocked:

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3301292

 

[Silverforce11]

I'd hardly call giant hot laptops mobile.. not when they have a huge power brick which need to be lugged everywhere.

There's progress, and there's big steps backwards.

True mobility = without being plugged in carrying a heavy huge laptop. We are a long way away from that.

 

[Meaker10]

I'd hardly call giant hot laptops mobile.. not when they have a huge power brick which need to be lugged everywhere.

There's progress, and there's big steps backwards.

True mobility = without being plugged in carrying a heavy huge laptop. We are a long way away from that.

Oh shush, go play with your smartphone or something.

 

[Gikaseixas]

I'd hardly call giant hot laptops mobile.. not when they have a huge power brick which need to be lugged everywhere.

There's progress, and there's big steps backwards.

True mobility = without being plugged in carrying a heavy huge laptop. We are a long way away from that.

Still, you can take it everywhere with you, wanna see you trying to do that with your PC

 

[Meaker10]

Yep I am - I manually set the fans to 100percent for the vantage test - the 3dmark11 test has been done with the normal profile though. Also something really interestin there is that I slightly bumped the clocks (903/1330), ran vantage with my power meter hooked up and I remember my 580m o/c was like between 175 and 200w during the 1st test while the 7970m slightly o/c stays between 130w and 146w peak during this same test - WOW

pau1ow - notebookreview

Wow, it might be more of a 75W card, that's nuts!

 

[aaksheytalwar]

I'll do no games on laptops. crappy monitor, crappy keyboard, loud like a jet, crappier gfx, battery life problem, cost problem, etc. I use an old t60 and x200 thinkpad no games laptops for work & browse and real computer for games.

This is one post where I agree with him