NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile: specs and benchmarks

Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile sales 22 September 2015. 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 outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 75.02 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Maxwell
Code name
N16E-GXX SLI
Type
Laptop
Release date
22 September 2015
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.
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
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
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
DirectX 12 (FL 12_1)
Benchmark 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
75.02
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
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.