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    Any advantage to Radeon 7970 (GX60) over nVidia 680m (GT60)?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by MJBarnes, Mar 16, 2013.

  1. MJBarnes

    MJBarnes Notebook Geek

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    From what I have been reading, it looks as though certain games are written to take maximum advantage of either AMD or nVidia chipsets.

    Being that the 680m is currently the top nVidia chip and the 7970 is the top AMD chip, is there really any game advantage to either? Will some games run better under a Radeon than an nvidia? Even at the 680m level?

    I guess to ask my question another way... Will any games perform better under the GX60 with the 7970 than the GT60 with the 680m? Looking at Notebookcheck.com it looks as though the 7970 gets the advantage on many of the games in terms of FPS, but will the processor of the GX60 slow it down to the point of the GT60 coming out ahead?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    The gt60 is superior and has a price tag to match that.
     
  3. majster msi

    majster msi Notebook Evangelist

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    Some games runs better on radeon 7970m but not in gx60. GX60 has poor cpu performance.
     
  4. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Some games may be developed more in mind with the Radeon cards, but the 680m from a hardware standpoint is the more powerful GPU. The A-10 APU (dual graphics aside) is fine for budget systems, but in this case it's a bottleneck to the 7970m.
     
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    davidkwan Notebook Consultant

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    I'm curious about the PhysX system in some game.... is it we can benefit nothing if running the game on a 7970m system??
     
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    You won't be able to utilize GPU accelerated PhysX for games that support it, but you can still take advantage of CPU PhysX and it performs fairly well.