GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 36.51% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile sales 22 September 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.5 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 330 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop): architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking127
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency8.13of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLI
Market segmentLaptop
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop)'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000)
Core clock speed1126 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1228 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors10400 Millionof 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)330 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop) and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop): 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed3500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop). As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

G-SYNC support+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop), sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12_1
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 36.51

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.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 33169

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.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 47704

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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 25453

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.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 155238

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 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 HD137
4K68

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 200−210
Cyberpunk 2077 80−85
Hogwarts Legacy 85−90

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 120−130
Counter-Strike 2 200−210
Cyberpunk 2077 80−85
Far Cry 5 110−120
Fortnite 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Forza Horizon 5 110−120
Hogwarts Legacy 85−90
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 140−150
Valorant 210−220

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 120−130
Counter-Strike 2 200−210
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 80−85
Dota 2 140−150
Far Cry 5 110−120
Fortnite 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Forza Horizon 5 110−120
Grand Theft Auto V 120−130
Hogwarts Legacy 85−90
Metro Exodus 85−90
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 140−150
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 132
Valorant 210−220

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 80−85
Dota 2 140−150
Far Cry 5 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hogwarts Legacy 85−90
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 140−150
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 74
Valorant 210−220

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 160−170

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 90−95
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 250−260
Grand Theft Auto V 70−75
Metro Exodus 50−55
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 250−260

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 40−45
Far Cry 5 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
Hogwarts Legacy 40−45
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 65−70

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 95−100

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 40−45
Grand Theft Auto V 75−80
Hogwarts Legacy 24−27
Metro Exodus 30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 51
Valorant 220−230

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 55−60
Counter-Strike 2 40−45
Cyberpunk 2077 18−20
Dota 2 100−110
Far Cry 5 45−50
Forza Horizon 4 65−70
Hogwarts Legacy 24−27
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 45−50

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 45−50

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is Radeon RX 6650M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile:

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile according to our statistics.

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