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GS60 vs. GT72 – Performance to weight ratio

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  1. MSINotebookUK

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    We’ve done a couple of articles on the monstruous NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card, since we’ve been fiddling around with a GT72 quite a lot lately. However, as strange as it may sound, we (us writing these articles) haven’t actually had any access to samples with the equally impressive, but better-value-for-money GTX 970M. Until now.

    We got hold of a GS60, which as you probably know is a slim machine at only 19.9mm thick. Due to some clever engineering, we can run a GTX 970M in it without any problems, and since it also uses the same CPU as the GT72 we previously used for performance tests, we can compare them side by side. You can probably see where this is going… Yes, it’s obviously going to be about 3D benchmark performance, GS60 vs. GT72. GTX 970M vs. 980M. Finesse vs. Bulk.

    In any case, below are the specs of the two machines. The benchmarks used are 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Firestrike, as these put graphics performance to the test.

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    Starting off with Firestrike, we notice that the GTX 970M in the GS60 will go as far as the drivers will allow us: 135MHz above stock levels: a GPU frequency of 1059MHz and boost at 1173MHz. Obviously, the 970M is down on shaders compared to the 980M as well, but it also won’t overclock as high. The 980M in the GT72 reaches 1173MHz GPU with a boost frequency of 1262MHz, while its memory also overclocks better, to over 6GHz. The GS60 and 970M falls some 80MHz short of the 6GHz mark.

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    At stock frequencies, we hit over 9200 points in 3DMark 11, with the GS60 and 970M, wheras the GT72 with its 980M clears 11000. With overclocking, the 970M comes close to the 10k mark, which no doubt would have fallen with higher frequencies if it hadn’t been for the driver limitations.

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    Moving on to Fire Strike, we see a similar picture. The 980M is comfortably clear of the 970M, but the 970M still offers impressive performance for a mobile chip. Over 6500 points in Fire Strike, and an additional comfortably achieved 800 points with overclocking.

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    Not enough to touch the 980M in the GT72, but there’s more… Remember us bringing up weight in the spec tables? You bet, we’ve come up with another graph with more stats for you folks:

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    The GS models were designed for people on the go who still want to do some serious gaming every now and then, while the GT series is more performance focused. This is what we want to highlight with the graph above: the performance/weight ratio in the GS60 is probably among the highest in notebooks everywhere right now.
     

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