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MSI includes a TURBO button for their GT70 0NC system which increases the 3GB GTX 670M's clock and shader frequencies by 25.2 and 45 MHz, respectively. They state that this speed boost will have a positive impact on graphically-intensive tasks.
Synthetic benchmarks are a good tool for indicating the performance increases achieved, if any.
Very small increases are shown in the synthetic benchmarks. Turbo mode does allow the GT70 0NC system to break the 3000 points barrier in 3DMark 11.
Real-world performance is crucial, therefore we also measured the effect that our GPU speed boost had on gaming performance.
Small but very worthwhile performance increases are given by the higher clock and shader frequencies. An across-the-board increase in minimum FPS is worth pointing out. This can be the difference between a game being playable and the settings having to be reduced.
This system exposes a problem with nvidia mobile pricing right now. the 7970m is cheaper than the GTX680m and faster, never mind the 670m.
The only issue with the 7970m is the noise and heat it generates. ive heard several laptops using it and they get very very loud when gaming.
I’m quite sure the one shown is the GT780, not the GT70. The GT70 has a very boring design, and the 0nC/0nD are slim.
Either way, it is pretty much my dream machine – 17″ and fast enough for games.
After getting my current 17″, I don’t want to go any smaller, although it’s no good with games.
My bad… I was thinking of the GE range… then again, the GT60’s look like the GE60’s and GE70’s while the GT70 and GT780 look like the GTX683 without the lights. Confusing..
(didnt read the whole article)
According to a website, the GTX 670M is not a Kepler based GPU, this is still a Fermi graphicscard, bigger DIE, less powerful etc..
GTX 670M = GTX 570M (Bad MSi!!!)