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.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	108
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	77.88
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	N16E-GXX SLI
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	22 September 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$301	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile'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 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1126 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1228 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	10400 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

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
SLI options	+

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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x 8 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	3500 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile. 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 support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile, 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 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 980 SLI Mobile 38.79

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: 17%

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 47704

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: 17%

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 33169

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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 HD	136
4K	64

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

65−70

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	65−70
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	95−100
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
Hitman 3	120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn	80−85
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	90−95
Watch Dogs: Legion	70−75

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	65−70
Battlefield 5	110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	95−100
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
Hitman 3	120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn	80−85
Metro Exodus	70−75
Red Dead Redemption 2	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	90−95
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	132
Watch Dogs: Legion	70−75

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	65−70
Battlefield 5	110−120
Cyberpunk 2077	65−70
Far Cry 5	95−100
Far Cry New Dawn	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	110−120
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	74
Watch Dogs: Legion	70−75

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	60−65
Hitman 3	70−75
Horizon Zero Dawn	50−55
Metro Exodus	40−45
Red Dead Redemption 2	30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	55−60

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	40−45
Battlefield 5	80−85
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Far Cry 5	70−75
Far Cry New Dawn	70−75
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	55−60
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Hitman 3	35−40
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−33
Metro Exodus	27−30
Red Dead Redemption 2	21−24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	51

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	24−27
Battlefield 5	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	35−40
Far Cry New Dawn	40−45
Forza Horizon 4	50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion	20−22

Relative performance

Overall GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile 100.77

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 100.67

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile 100.57

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile 100

Radeon RX 6700S 99.05

Radeon RX 6650M 98.07

GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile 96.62

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is Radeon RX 6700S, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.