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GTX 980M

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Release date ≈ Q4 2014.

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Average Bench: 50.6% (53rd of 597)

Based on 7,619 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 13D7 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Poor: 34%Average: 50.6% Great: 62%

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Average average bench

The Nvidia GTX 980M averaged 49.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 154fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 144fps

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 980M is 28%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 980M performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 132fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 110fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 7,619 samples)
Rank 5350.6%
Min Avg Max
30.5 Lighting 154 270
60 Reflection 132 148
107 Parallax 148 175
47% 145 fps
Min Avg Max
80.6 MRender 118 130
107 Gravity 144 161
61.2 Splatting 110 123
53.3% 124 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Clevo(1558 7500) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.22
53.5% Above average
Lighting 155
Reflection 144
Parallax 158
48% 153 fps
MRender 126
Gravity 153
Splatting 124
57% 134 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 416.81
52.1% Above average
Lighting 154
Reflection 121
Parallax 121
44% 132 fps
MRender 127
Gravity 160
Splatting 120
58% 135 fps
Dell(1028 0685) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1694
51.4% Above average
Lighting 158
Reflection 133
Parallax 147
48% 146 fps
MRender 123
Gravity 144
Splatting 112
54% 126 fps
Dell(1028 0551) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 24.21.13.9924
33.7% Below average
Lighting 114
Reflection 116
Parallax 119
36% 116 fps
MRender 44.4
Gravity 99.8
Splatting 81.7
32% 75.3 fps
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 Game FPS Estimates

Average fps @ 1080p with maximum detail settings for 1 popular games:

League of Legends: 183 fps

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 12,782,564 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 7,619 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Dell(1028 0708) 23% 49% ± 7%
Asus(1043 22DA) 19% 51% ± 9%
MSI(1462 1129) 11% 52% ± 4%
Dell(1028 0688) 7% 49% ± 8%
Dell(1028 0685) 4% 46% ± 8%
Clevo(1558 0376) 3% 57% ± 9%
Acer(1025 105B) 3% 50% ± 10%
MSI(1462 1131) 3% 48% ± 10%
MSI(1462 1171) 2% 63% ± 7%
MSI(1462 1132) 2% 63% ± 10%
Dell(1028 05AD) 2% 52% ± 12%
Clevo(1558 7700) 2% 53% ± 3%
Clevo(1558 6556) 2% 54% ± 0%
Acer(1025 1051) 2% 41% ± 15%
Acer(1025 107D) 1% 50% ± 8%
Acer(1025 107E) 1% 53% ± 9%
Microsoft(1414 0020) 1% 48% ± 14%
MSI(1462 1157) 1% 54% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 7500) 1% 51% ± 6%
Clevo(1558 7481) 1% 44% ± 18%
Dell(1028 05AB) 1% 53% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 6780) 1% 51% ± 4%
Nvidia(10DE 110B) 1% 53% ± 1%
MSI(1462 112F) 0% 49% ± 7%
Dell(1028 0550) 0% 47% ± 11%
EVGA(3842 2000) 0% 43% ± 18%
Clevo(1558 0870) 0% 57% ± 7%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 0% 54% ± 1%
Clevo(1558 6781) 0% 54% ± 0%
MSI(1462 110B) 0% 34% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5281) 0% 53% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 13D7) 0% 48% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0551) 0% 31% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1189) 0% 55% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7502) 0% 54% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7702) 0% 47% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5106) 0% 49% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7102) 0% 52% ± 0%
Dell(1028 053F) 0% 52% ± 0%
MSI(1462 AF1C) 0% 53% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0580) 0% 42% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AA) 0% 50% ± 0%
MSI(1462 AF19) 0% 44% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3756) 0% 54% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AE) 0% 49% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6541) 0% 53% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6540) 0% 53% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 C556) 0% 54% ± 0%
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Desktop 65%
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Workstation 45%
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System: Asus G751JY

CPU
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 61%, 37,041 samples430x
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 34,004 samples412x
Core i7-4860HQIntelBench 64%, 488 samples143x
GPU
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 51%, 7,619 samples714x
SSD
XP941 PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 124%, 1,715 samples292x
X300s Non-Secure 128GBSanDiskBench 69%, 889 samples111x
X300s Non-Secure 256GBSanDiskBench 76%, 1,115 samples96x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 10,768 samples197x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 7,028 samples144x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 13,780 samples118x
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Even at its age, still a great laptop graphics card that remains able to play most new AAA games at 1080p60 if not very slightly below that. Excellent overclocker if you have the cooling and don't mind flashing the vBIOS.

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Good

4 months ago.

I kinda have like the AMD drivers more, because they are cheaper and function almost the same

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Excellent

22 hrs ago.

Laptop beast

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