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GTX 980M

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Release date ≈ Q4 2014.

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Average Bench: 50.6% (75th of 621)

Based on 9,153 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 49.4% 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) 157fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 144fps

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 980M is 27.9%. 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) 129fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 109fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 9,153 samples)
Rank 7550.6%
Min Avg Max
36.3 Lighting 157 287
54.4 Reflection 129 147
114 Parallax 147 173
47.5% 145 fps
Min Avg Max
80.9 MRender 117 130
110 Gravity 144 161
84.2 Splatting 109 120
52.9% 123 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Acer(1025 1051) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9124
56.3% Above average
Lighting 163
Reflection 148
Parallax 158
50% 156 fps
MRender 146
Gravity 163
Splatting 117
61% 142 fps
Asus(1043 22DA) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 411.63
55.1% Above average
Lighting 169
Reflection 142
Parallax 158
51% 157 fps
MRender 128
Gravity 159
Splatting 118
58% 135 fps
MSI(1462 1129) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.60
51.7% Above average
Lighting 160
Reflection 133
Parallax 146
48% 147 fps
MRender 123
Gravity 148
Splatting 109
54% 127 fps
Clevo(1558 7481) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3064
51.5% Above average
Lighting 159
Reflection 130
Parallax 158
49% 149 fps
MRender 123
Gravity 143
Splatting 107
53% 124 fps
MSI(1462 1129) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.60
51.4% Above average
Lighting 159
Reflection 130
Parallax 146
48% 145 fps
MRender 123
Gravity 147
Splatting 108
54% 126 fps
Dell(1028 0708) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3160
49.9% Average
Lighting 145
Reflection 126
Parallax 150
45% 140 fps
MRender 119
Gravity 142
Splatting 112
53% 124 fps
Dell(1028 0688) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3160
33.6% Below average
Lighting 30.4
Reflection 30.4
Parallax 129
20% 63.2 fps
MRender 82.3
Gravity 116
Splatting 111
43% 103 fps
Acer(1025 107E) ≥ 4GB
Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 25.21.14.1616
31% Below average
Lighting 30
Reflection 30
Parallax 134
21% 64.8 fps
MRender 87.7
Gravity 87.9
Splatting 103
38% 92.8 fps
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 Game FPS Estimates

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

League of Legends: 182 fps

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 19,221,788 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 9,153 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Dell(1028 0708) 25% 48% ± 5%
Asus(1043 22DA) 17% 52% ± 7%
MSI(1462 1129) 7% 51% ± 3%
Dell(1028 0688) 6% 48% ± 9%
Acer(1025 105B) 4% 49% ± 12%
Clevo(1558 0376) 3% 58% ± 13%
MSI(1462 1132) 3% 59% ± 11%
Dell(1028 0685) 3% 49% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 6556) 2% 51% ± 10%
Microsoft(1414 0020) 2% 53% ± 2%
Acer(1025 1051) 2% 52% ± 4%
Clevo(1558 7500) 2% 52% ± 2%
Dell(1028 05AB) 2% 53% ± 13%
MSI(1462 1131) 2% 49% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 7700) 2% 47% ± 14%
MSI(1462 1171) 1% 59% ± 6%
Clevo(1558 7502) 1% 50% ± 4%
Acer(1025 107E) 1% 52% ± 5%
Gigabyte(1458 B556) 1% 55% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7481) 1% 51% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1157) 1% 50% ± 7%
Clevo(1558 5281) 1% 37% ± 21%
MSI(1462 112F) 1% 52% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 0870) 1% 50% ± 11%
Clevo(1558 7702) 1% 54% ± 2%
Clevo(1558 6541) 1% 43% ± 18%
Clevo(1558 6780) 1% 45% ± 11%
EVGA(3842 2000) 0% 39% ± 8%
MSI(1462 1189) 0% 50% ± 4%
Dell(1028 15CD) 0% 53% ± 0%
Acer(1025 107D) 0% 53% ± 0%
Asus(1043 157D) 0% 55% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3756) 0% 53% ± 0%
Dell(1028 057B) 0% 56% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 C556) 0% 53% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0550) 0% 35% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 4756) 0% 52% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 5105) 0% 53% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7102) 0% 40% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 7104) 0% 54% ± 0%
MSI(1462 AF1C) 0% 50% ± 0%
Dell(1028 05AA) 0% 34% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6540) 0% 54% ± 0%
HP(103C 80D6) 0% 27% ± 0%
Clevo(1558 6781) 0% 53% ± 0%
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Gaming 45%
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Desktop 61%
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Workstation 40%
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System: Asus G751JY

CPU
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 51%, 48,956 samples592x
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 50%, 46,003 samples578x
Core i7-4860HQIntelBench 55%, 585 samples197x
GPU
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 51%, 9,153 samples988x
SSD
XP941 PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 129%, 1,736 samples385x
X300s Non-Secure 128GBSanDiskBench 72%, 1,010 samples148x
SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung  $235Bench 179%, 5,188 samples126x
RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 53%, 17,036 samples270x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 10,028 samples188x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 17,900 samples171x
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7 days ago.

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.

BRA-User
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Good

1 month ago.

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

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Average

2 months ago.

Out of date, even in mobile.

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