GeForce GTX 980 Mobile Overview
Summary
Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.
The GeForce GTX 980 Mobile is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 21 Sep 2015. The graphics card houses the GM204 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 5,200 million transistors on a 28 nm, 398 mm2 die.
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile pros and cons |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| GeForce GTX 980 Mobile | GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB | GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile | Radeon R9 380X | Radeon R9 380 |
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| | compare | compare | compare | compare |
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| Shader units | 2048 | 1152 | 1280 | 2048 | 1792 |
| ROPs | 64 | 48 | 48 | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics processor | GM204 | GP106 | GP106 | Antigua | Antigua |
| Process size | 28 nm | 16 nm | 16 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Memory | 8192 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective) | 3072 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective) | 6144 Mb GDDR5 (2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective) | 4096 Mb GDDR5 (1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 256 bit | 192 bit | 192 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.40 Gb/s | 192.20 Gb/s | 192.20 Gb/s | 182.40 Gb/s | 176.00 Gb/s |
| Release date | 21 Sep 2015 | 18 Aug 2016 | 15 Aug 2016 | 19 Nov 2015 | 18 Jun 2015 |
3DMark 11
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
16380
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
14100
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
13830
Radeon R9 380X
13410
Radeon R9 380
12280
Points (higher is better)