NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Recommended processors
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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 880M SLI sales 12 March 2014. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 206 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 21.68% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 880M SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	212
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	N15E-GX-A2
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	12 March 2014 (9 years old)
Current price	$3098	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 880M SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 880M SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	954 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	2x 3540 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	206 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 880M SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
SLI options	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 880M SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x 8 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Shared memory	-

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 880M SLI. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 880M SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (FL 11_0)
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 880M SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 880M SLI 21.68

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GTX 880M SLI 36366

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GTX 880M SLI 15823

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 880M SLI 9111

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 880M SLI 11817

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GTX 880M SLI 77057

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 880M SLI 146

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 880M SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

35−40

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40
Battlefield 5	70−75
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	55−60
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	65−70
Horizon Zero Dawn	45−50
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40
Battlefield 5	70−75
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	55−60
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	65−70
Horizon Zero Dawn	45−50
Metro Exodus	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40
Battlefield 5	70−75
Cyberpunk 2077	35−40
Far Cry 5	55−60
Far Cry New Dawn	55−60
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	30−35
Hitman 3	35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30
Metro Exodus	20−22
Red Dead Redemption 2	16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	20−22
Battlefield 5	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Far Cry 5	35−40
Far Cry New Dawn	40−45
Forza Horizon 4	40−45
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	14−16

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18
Hitman 3	20−22
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Metro Exodus	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	21−24

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	10−12
Battlefield 5	24−27
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	18−20
Far Cry New Dawn	20−22
Forza Horizon 4	27−30
Watch Dogs: Legion	9−10

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 880M SLI performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile 107.75

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 104.38

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 102.81

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI 100

NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile 98.99

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 97.32

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 96.63

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 880M SLI is Radeon RX 5600M, which is slower by 3% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.