Exactly. This is what people need to understand about mobile GPUs. There's no way sugarcoat it. For better and for worse, Nvidia simply has the better hardware.
No, Nvidia's brilliant imitation of Ubi$oft began a year ago, when it released the defective by design 880M and hung all 880M owners out to dry by never fixing or even acknowledging the existence of its problems.
That is one of the plausible theories. However, don't be so quick to dismiss the lack of competition angle. Remember how Nvidia straight up did nothing for 2 years while the 8800 GTX dominated the market? 9 Series was all die shrinks and we didn't get an actually faster GPU until the GTX 280...
If I may steer this OT train back on track, the reason Nvidia disabled overclocking is that it has a monopoly over the mobile GPU market precisely due to AMD's failure there.
Propaganda? Hardly. Further evidence: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-MSI-GX60-Notebook.86283.0.html
I'll spare you the need to read the whole review since you're a busy man with other forums to troll ;), but first note the A10 getting soundly beat by an i3 in CPU benchmarks.
Then read...
I was comparing the GX60/70 with similarly-priced i7 plus midrange Nvidia GPU laptops such as the Clevo W230ST, not with i7 + 680M/7970M systems, which obviously cost much more. And because of the GX60's CPU bottleneck, systems like the W230ST performed just as well in games and much better in...
I'm not sure you read the whole review, because not only did the reviewer say that single channel RAM made no difference on dGPU performance, but HDD vs. SSD has no impact on game performance either. And I'm not sure what you mean by AMD sending a woefully unequipped review system because the...
You're talking about the infamously unbalanced MSI GX60/70. A weak sauce A10 APU (about as fast as a mobile i3 if not slower) paired with a high-end dGPU such as the 7970M is a recipe for disaster and screams CPU bottleneck. The reason they were so cheap was because the performance was only...
Exactly. 680M vs. 7970M was ages ago. That was the last time AMD was competitive performance-wise and the last time enthusiasts had a reason to go with AMD. Then 780M came along and it's been a no-contest ever since. Now AMD can't even compete with Nvidia's third or even fourth tier GPU as...
Actually he's right. AMD has not been competitive in mobile GPUs since the 7970M in early 2012. 3 years is a lifetime in this market and Nvidia has run away with it. Desktop is a different story.
Or Nvidia wants to milk its GPUs over a couple more generations. Disable overclocking, rebadge current cards and sell them next year and year after that with small clock bumps. Because what was 880M but an overclocked 780M?
Why do you keep bringing up GPU failures that had nothing to do with overclocking in an attempt to justify Nvidia's action? The Bumpgate that affected G84M and G86M (G80 never made it into a mobile form factor) and the Xbox 360's RRoD were both the result of manufacturing defects, not...
There's no choice for people who need gaming notebooks. All the high-end 900M cards have OC turned off and AMD hasn't been competitive in 3 years, basically asleep at the wheel since the 7970M in 2012. It's ironic how Nvidia targeted its fastest cards but the slower ones are unaffected.
Exactly. This is false advertising/bait & switch, which is illegal!
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There was never a mobile G80 card.
Your argument is invalid because notebook GPUs have much lower TDPs. The overbuilt chassis and cooling on Alienware, ASUS, Clevo, and MSI machines handle them more than fine under load even with heavy overclocking. You are making blanket statements stemming...
Nope, not all of them do. This is incorrect, like most assumptions and generalizations. As a matter of fact, the new 800M and 900M Maxwell cards on which OC is disabled run extremely cool and efficient, much more so than your GTX 660.
Notebook users are humans, too. We don't deserve to have...
Exactly, it blows chunks.
I've got my 650M SLI overclocked by a 46% on core (1150 MHz vs. 790 MHz) with a +50mV overvolt and 13% on VRAM (4.5 GHz vs. 4 GHz), which nets me a good 40% performance increase across the board. That's like buying a whole 'nother tier of GPU. And how much did temps...
Hi RussianSensation,
Thank you for making this thread. Every last bit counts as we raise awareness of this issue across the Internet and make our voices heard.
In your original post, can you please ask concerned users to sign this petition and to tweet the following messages:
We've already...
Hello everyone,
My ASUS G73Jh laptop is connected wirelessly to my home network and I use a Netgear WNR2000v3 router, which I have successfully flashed to the 3rd party DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I am using this over my stock firmware is that it allows me to adjust my NAT table settings...
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