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Clevo p150sm - GTX 770m vs 8970m


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Hi I want to buy a clevo laptop but I am messing with choosing a card.

gtx 770m and 8970m are around same price. When I saw benchmarks the AMD is 25% better but I also heard about some problems with enduro and battery life and about haswell CPU is not working very good with AMD GPUs. Few years ago (maybe more then few) I had Ati Radeon for desktop and It was pain in the ass, no new drivers for long time etc etc, and since then I am always on geforce GPUs.

What can you suggest? The problems were solved already? How often are coming out new AMD drivers?

If I will take laptop with AMD graphics will I be able to change it later for better geforce?

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Hi I want to buy a clevo laptop but I am messing with choosing a card.

gtx 770m and 8970m are around same price. When I saw benchmarks the AMD is 25% better but I also heard about some problems with enduro and battery life and about haswell CPU is not working very good with AMD GPUs. Few years ago (maybe more then few) I had Ati Radeon for desktop and It was pain in the ass, no new drivers for long time etc etc, and since then I am always on geforce GPUs.

What can you suggest? The problems were solved already? How often are coming out new AMD drivers?

If I will take laptop with AMD graphics will I be able to change it later for better geforce?

I had a 680m but killed it and had to switch to a 7970m. AMD drivers have vastly improved over what they were so that enduro is not really an issue anymore. I am not aware of any issues with haswell and AMD GPUs, but if you find something saying otherwise please let me know. Driver updates are much more regular now than they were.

Yes the 7970m should be a little stronger than the 770m.

Yes you can swap out the card in the future if you want to.

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We've had very few complaints with the 8970M. AMD puts together a very good value chip, and the drivers have improved over the years quite a bit. :)

It's still a matter of time before we have real results on reliability/longevity though.

AMD cards have much higher quality voltage regulation (3rd core phase, more caps) and have thicker PCBs than than nvidia cards, so I expect them to last longer.

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