GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 35.53% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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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 ranking | 144 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 8.35 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | N16E-GXX SLI | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 22 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 cores | 4096 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| Core clock speed | 1126 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1228 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 10400 Million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 330 Watt | of 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 size | large | |
| 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2x 8 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3500 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 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.
| DirectX | 12_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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 HD | 137 | |
| 4K | 68 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Counter-Strike 2 | 200−210 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 85−90 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 75−80 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 120−130 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 200−210 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 85−90 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 110−120 | |
| Fortnite | 160−170 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 140−150 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 110−120 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 140−150 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 75−80 | |
| Valorant | 210−220 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 120−130 | |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 200−210 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 270−280 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 85−90 | |
| 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 | |
| Metro Exodus | 85−90 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 140−150 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 75−80 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 132 | |
| Valorant | 210−220 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 120−130 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 85−90 | |
| Dota 2 | 140−150 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 110−120 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 140−150 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 140−150 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 75−80 | |
| 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 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 55−60 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 45−50 | |
| Sons of the Forest | 30−35 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Fortnite | 45−50 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is Radeon RX 7600S, which is faster by 1% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile:
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.
