Amd 8970m vs 7970m physical card only, no test exclusive. I tried the card again and the computer posted fine. The selfextracting window appears and prompts you to extract or unzip to c. In comparison, the hd 6990m and the gtx 675m only achieve about half. The radeon hd 7970m was released less than a year after the radeon hd 6990m, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games. Amd 7970m modified vbios general notebook discussions. Amd radeon hd 7970m and nvidia geforce gtx 680m upgrade. We put the 850 mhz amd 7970m to the test against the 715 mhz 6990m to find out which you should buy. Since then, i have a series of bsods with my graphic card. Using hwinfo i see i have two identical 6970m6990m cards.
Im going to upgrade to 980m and have few questions. At the time of writing, there is no driver support for the 7970m. I reused the stock 6990m heatsink as it is identical to the 7970m. The amd mobility radeon hd 6990m or sometimes called ati mobility radeon hd 6990 is a highend graphics card for large laptops 17 and up. Weve seen the efficiency of nvidias kepler architecture firsthand on the desktop. Introducing a completely redesigned gaming application, placing hot, indemand features even closer to your. The geforce gtx 680m has 2048 mb more video memory than the radeon hd 7970m, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. Amd drivers and support for radeon, radeon pro, firepro, apu. During the last month, amd has been working tirelessly on the graphics switching and overall general performance for its graphics drivers. Amd radeon hd 7970m crossfire compare amd radeon hd 6990m gpu. Testing amds hd 7970m enduro hotfix by jarred walton on. I uninstalled the amd drivers and removed every amdati folder off my computer that i could find in c.
I am only asking this since i heard it on some forums, just wanted to. Always provide machine make, model, specs and software versions. Specifications and benchmarks of the amd radeon hd 7970m graphics card for. Radeon hd 7970m vs geforce gtx 580 desktop techspot. Download new video drivers, do not install uninstall. Gpuboss is not aware of any important advantages of the 6990m vs the 7970m. Poor performance with 7970m vs previous 6970m community. Amd radeon hd 7970m compare amd radeon hd 6990m gpu. Where rxxxx is the name of the file to be downloaded. Amd radeon hd 6870m6970m7970m6990m graphics driver.
The geforce gpu is said to outperform the radeon hd 7970m in nearly all. Release notes radeon software crimson relive edition 17. Im running the mod drivers and every thing seems to crash. Creators update hangs at 32% as well ive even tried installing the creators update as a fresh install and it works until you try to install an amd driver it crashes so badly that you need to reinstall the os. Nvidiafavored games actually ran more smoothly on the hd 7970m. Amd 8970m vs 7970m physical card only, no test exclusive upgrademonkey, we have not managed to test it yet, it has bios problem. But amds radeon hd 7970m pulls off a stellar showing in xotic pcs.
If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Was wondering if the amd 7970m outperforms the gtx 580 desktop card. A quick and easy graphics upgrade guide of an alienware m15x notebook with an amd radeon hd 7970m and an nvidia geforce gtx 680m. I also got my 6990m that stop working to post again. Based on 1,661 user benchmarks for the amd hd 6990 crossfire disabled and the radeon hd 7970m, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 635 gpus. Guide installing and overclocking the amd mobility 7970 in the. Amd radeon hd 7970m compare nvidia geforce gtx 680m gpu. Its with these fresh drivers that we take on the synthetic benchmarks. Did some tests with the vbios of the amd 7970m, heres what ive got so far. Hi, sorry to disturb you but i have a big problem since my laptop crashed when i was playing a game. Going to upgrade 7970m to 980m on m17x r4 980m 7970m. Benchmarks real world tests of radeon hd 7970m vs 6990m. Put sidebyside, the 680m and 7970m are in very close contention.
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