AVADirect’s X7200: The GeForce GTX 485M SLI Mobile Graphics Giant
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Page 1:Better? Faster? Cheaper?
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Page 2:Taking It To The Limit, One More Time
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Page 3:Test Settings
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Page 4:Benchmark Results: PCMark And Sandra
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Page 5:Benchmark Results: Non-Gaming Applications
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Page 6:Benchmark Results: Crysis
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Page 7:Benchmark Results: F1 2010
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Page 8:Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2
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Page 9:Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat
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Page 10:Benchmark Results: 3DMark
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Page 11:Power Consumption And Battery Life
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Page 12:Nvidia Returns
Benchmark Results: PCMark And Sandra
Although many folks use synthetic benchmarks as a primary metric for performance evaluation, we put our faith in real applications whenever possible. Readers who compare test results between different online sources should find the specific results more useful, though no more revealing.
PCMark shows that the only real difference in performance is small, and primarily limited to drive throughput. Differences of less than 10% are usually due to drive conditioning, adding little to the discussion.
Large difference in Sandra 2011 would have most likely been caused by configuration issues or excessive overhead for a component. Fortunately, that level of deviation does not exist.
Summary
- Better? Faster? Cheaper?
- Taking It To The Limit, One More Time
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: PCMark And Sandra
- Benchmark Results: Non-Gaming Applications
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: F1 2010
- Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2
- Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark
- Power Consumption And Battery Life
- Nvidia Returns
Those who need to process large data sets on the go would likely see lots of use from a machine like this.
Also, those who develop software and need a mobile machine to showcase their new products (especially if that software happens to be a game).
Diminishing returns? Maybe with personal laptops < 1000 dollars. Not with this class of machine.
Judging from the specs,1 GTX 485M performance falls between a desktop GTX 460 and GTX 560Ti right ?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/malibal-lotus-p150hm-geforce-gtx-485m-core-i7-2920xm,2855.html
But I liked to see a desktop system in the comparison charts.
I understand that the value proposition is not very good still, but your conclusion is misleading in my opinion. People splashing out to be able to play the most modern games at highest res simply do not care how many excessive frames are pushed at the low end.
so how can an SLI'd GTX 485 could be cheaper than an Xfire'd GTX 485M ?
On AVAdirect's website : choosing the X7200 : choosing Xfire's HD 6970M solution costs 757$ LESS than choosing SLI'd GTX 485M
this review DO appear fake ...
please Crashman provide some more info on all this ...
That being said, the stock drivers for the GTX 485m suck miserably. On Notebook Review Forums I have modded 267.76 to include GTX 485m and the reported gains are AMAZING there compared to the original drivers. You are really not doing these cards justice with this review
The GTX 485m are easily the better performing cards but cost more to reflect this
nVidia's mobile GPUs cost less than AMD's one ...
APRIL'S FOOL EVERYONE !!!
Toms compare laptops. We appreciate it. Love it. But please have a look at the last five or so configurations you have tested. They are insanely overbudget top-of-the-line builds that make little sense to most because:-
1. Of the lack of money in most cases,
2. Of the lack of real portability (weight and battery life) in many of the cases where people have the required dough.
Performance does not scale well with price as we move from "low high-end" to "high high-end" (Small increments in clock rate cost hundreds of dollars from i7 2630QM to 2920XM, alright, some increase in cache as well, but you get the point, also upgrading from 460M to 485M costs $500 at the cheapest).
So you see where I'm going ? Far more people go for a 460M/2630QM combo or a 460M/2720QM combo than for a "985M-Super-SLI+i9 HyperExtreme Edition 8 GHz Turbo Boost" [Sorry, couldn't help that
As good as this stuff is, to drool upon, it's configurations like that that would make sense to more of us.
Of course, if it's only the highest end the manufacturers want to be reviewed and showed off, then you really don't have a choice.