3DMark Benchmarks!
Sorry for the tardiness, my FIOS took a dump about 4 hours ago. >_> (What are the chances, I've never raged harder.) Here are my first run benchmarks from 3DMark on both my 27" 2011 fully loaded iMac, and my new 27" 2012 fully loaded. Get the Depends ready folks...
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2012 Geforce 680mx (w/ current Nvidia 310.70 beta drivers)..........6883
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5212798
Over 2x the performance from 2011 model, WOW!
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2012 Geforce 680mx (w/ stock Apple bootcamp drivers)..........6333
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5212432
2011 Ati 6970m..........3287
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5212575
OH.MY.GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
This GPU is literally the sickest piece of tech I've had a chance to get my hands on in any Apple device in the past 20 years. (OK, maybe the G5 rocketing to 2ghz at release comes close.
) We are talking about literally DOUBLE the performance though. It looks like Apple kept this one stock as well, as it runs at the same clocks as standard NVidia parts (720mhz CPU, 2500mhz Memory).
There are a few updated drivers available so I'm going to retest with the latest official drivers and the current beta drivers and will report back here. And for what its worth, the Nvidia website blows the ATI website out of the water. Really, if you work for ATI, you need to examine how incredibly amazing the NV website is and how quickly they turn around drivers and hotfixes. They even have tweak guides and give you examples of what the best settings are for your hardware.
Here is my detailed info.
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Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 680MX
Driver version: 306.37
DirectX support: 11.1
CUDA Cores: 1536
Core clock: 719 MHz
Memory data rate: 5000 MHz
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2047 MB
Video BIOS version: 80.04.59.01.01
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3