NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
This is high-end Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.5 GHz are supplied.
Power consumption is at 330 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 74.61 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Transistor count
10400 Million
of 21100
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile'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
Memory specs
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
of 32
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile.
G-SYNC support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
3D Vision
+
GPU Boost
+
CUDA
+
SLI
+
GeForce Experience
+
Surround
+
Adaptive Vertical Sync
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 (FL 12_1)
Video card benchmarks performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
75.42
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
155238
3DMark Fire Strike Score
18339
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
25453
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
33169
3DMark Vantage Performance
47704
Game benchmarks (in FPS)
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
0.28
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Doom (2016)
low / 720p
193
medium / 768p
190
high / 1080p
169
ultra / 1080p
160
4k / 2160p
70
Far Cry Primal (2016)
low / 720p
98
medium / 1080p
97
high / 1080p
86
ultra / 1080p
85
4k / 2160p
56
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (2016)
low / 720p
197
medium / 768p
145
high / 1080p
124
ultra / 1080p
119
4k / 2160p
48
Overwatch (2016)
low / 720p
300
medium / 768p
300
high / 1080p
300
ultra / 1080p
297
4k / 2160p
143
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
low / 768p
107
medium / 768p
95
high / 1080p
95
ultra / 1080p
94
4k / 2160p
61
The Division (2016)
low / 720p
226
medium / 768p
190
high / 1080p
127
ultra / 1080p
101
4k / 2160p
55
XCOM 2 (2016)
low / 720p
130
medium / 1080p
110
high / 1080p
108
ultra / 1080p
60
4k / 2160p
39
Fallout 4 (2015)
low / 720p
189
medium / 768p
184
high / 1080p
149
ultra / 1080p
130
4k / 2160p
56
Just Cause 3 (2015)
low / 768p
158
medium / 768p
148
high / 1080p
93
ultra / 1080p
79
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
low / 768p
280
medium / 768p
232
high / 1080p
151
ultra / 1080p
136
4k / 2160p
50
The Witcher 3 (2015)
low / 768p
270
medium / 768p
203
high / 1080p
132
ultra / 1080p
74
4k / 2160p
51
Far Cry 4 (2014)
low / 768p
138
medium / 768p
137
high / 1080p
120
ultra / 1080p
114
Sims 4 (2014)
low / 768p
192
medium / 768p
173
high / 1080p
144
ultra / 1080p
138
Battlefield 4 (2013)
low / 768p
200
medium / 768p
200
high / 768p
199
ultra / 1080p
177
4k / 2160p
92
Crysis 3 (2013)
low / 768p
164
medium / 768p
148
high / 768p
128
ultra / 1080p
92
Tomb Raider (2013)
low / 768p
548
medium / 768p
521
high / 768p
507
ultra / 1080p
277
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile from AMD is Radeon RX 470 Mobile, which is slower by 44% and lower by 57 positions in our rating.
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