Enduro AMD HD 7970m Hotfix

[JimmyDazzler79]

I have not bought a laptop yet but i am going to. I was waiting on information on new drivers coming out for the 7970m Graphics Card. Testing has been done on the hotfix. Results are listed in the link provided.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6353/testing-amds-hd-7970m-enduro-hotfix

According to the comments it will be released within a week.

Fingers crossed. If anyone has access to this hotfix can they post results in performance please?

Thanks

 

[JimmyDazzler79]

Another link today around gaming performance of the new hotfix (not yet released to public) compared to the other AMD drivers and other cards.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6343/avadirect-clevo-p170em-amds-hd-7970m-got-game/5

 

[Nizar]

Hi Guys, i ordred my new laptop and i choosed to have 2x HD7970m CF, will the enduro issues apply's for the crossfire, or it does only happne when you have a single HD7970m ?

 

[Iroquois Pliskin]

Hi Guys, i ordred my new laptop and i choosed to have 2x HD7970m CF, will the enduro issues apply's for the crossfire, or it does only happne when you have a single HD7970m ?

Only applies to a single 7970M in P150/170EM laptops.

 

[Nizar]

Only applies to a single 7970M in P150/170EM laptops.

Cheers

 

[Iroquois Pliskin]

And even then, it's not that serious, AMD should fix it soon(tm). ; )

 

[JimmyDazzler79]

Apparently the fix will be released today by AMD, see the latest comments of this thread


http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33993055&page=10

 

[Iroquois Pliskin]

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/693275-so-7970m-driver-update-6.html

General consensus appears to be that the underutilisation on the HD 7970M on Clevo models has been fixed and the GPU runs to its utmost potential, as expected of it.

AMD took their sweet time to fix what is a software problem, though. I thought this wouldn't be resolved, because of the hardware switches in place between iGPU & the dedicated card on these chassis.