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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI

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The GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

There is only a very few games out today that the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI can't play. It can run 82% of demanding games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

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The GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI is released on the 07 Oct 2014
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Maxwell GM204 (x2) (x2)
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28nm
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96
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199 GTexel/s
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64 (x2)
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133 GPixel/s
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16384 MB
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1253 MHz
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256 Bit
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GDDR5
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320.8GB/sec
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3072KB(x2)
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1038 MHz
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200 Watts
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GeForce GTX 980M 8GB SLI Game Requirement Analysis

The SLI setup of upcoming GeForce GTX 980M 8GB.


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xquatrox's Rig
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Proud owner of this kit and I can say that it kicks A$$ like a boss :)

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ghostsfriendship's Rig
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Yeah, the 980M SLi is a really great card. Was actually planning on upgrading to it but the gap between my GPU and yours is too small. Even the highest score that the 980M SLi achieves in 3dmark firestrike is only marginally better by 42fps

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xquatrox's Rig
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Don't compare 'highest' scores - those are VERY unstable overclocks that only last minutes before crashing. Gaming does not work on those clocks and therefore they're useless.
On average with 'gaming-grade' overclocks you can get double the performance of 780Ms, which is what I got. You'd still get -50% or so better framerates if you upgraded and you'd also benefit from faster hardware tessellation.

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ghostsfriendship's Rig
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The 880M SLi is roughly on the same level as a GTX 980 while yours is on the same level as a 980 Ti. If you were wondering: http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/7149225/fs/2402025.

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xquatrox's Rig
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With my cards I score better in Firestrike than an average overclocked 980Ti/Titan X so I am fully aware of the fact (check my Firestrike vs GreedyMuffin's, he made me aware of this) :P
As for 880Ms… I hope you're not throttling because those cards throttle like crazy from what I've heard. I even had to flash a custom VBIOS to stop my 980Ms from doing that…
After that - double performance vs my OC'd 780M SLI

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Fortunately, they don't throttle as I would have already upgraded by now if they did. Stock for stock, there is a 20fps increase when comparing your 980M sli to my 880M sli in practically every game. I get 66fps in unigine heavenstockthough

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xquatrox's Rig
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Quite a bit further away from my 98avg, but suit yourself.

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Yeah but it was stock. Your score is pretty nice though :)

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You're one of the few lucky owners of 880M if your GPUs aren't frying, throttling and are stable. I've read waay too much about them to warrant and upgrade to 880Ms when they came out :)

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260 pct worse lol , anyways i only play NFS hot pursuit and the run by my laptop so i don't really need to upgrade ( at least for years )

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yeah your laptops pretty decent your dedicated chip is pretty decent nothing amazing but can hold its own for some time yet :) betcha that puppy set you back a bit

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mzeze110's Rig
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yeah lenovo y50p .. i got it as a gift from my uncle rofl

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lmao this is 1100% better than my puny laptop gpu lmao,


i wanna buy a gaming laptop that would be slightly more powerfull than ps4/xbox one, so i could game on it for this generation

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MSI is a good choice.
GT80 TITAN

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aadesh's Test Rig
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mine is 10% better :D

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I feel sad about my lappy now :D
NEED AN UPGRADE!

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You really don't lol.

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Gamkutopolowk's Rig
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if you want this upgrade? do you have big money?

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Yes, I do. Money's not a worry. But now I'm contemplating a desktop. Figured if I get all the parts myself, for 2200GBP I can get 2xGTX980 (SLI), 32GB DDR4, i7 5930K Extreme, 750W PSU and a fancy box…
Probably a better choice than upgrading the laptop..

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jallen1991's Rig
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You're well off the mark with all that for £2200

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Is that good or bad?

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Good if you can get it all for that little, I mean just the CPU and RAM will come to about £900, give or take.

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oh, yeah it's not too bad. The mobo I chose was an Asus Extreme one, although I think I might invest in an Asus X99 Deluxe instead, which will raise the price

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Laptops are now starting to get at the same level as a good stationary computer, i like that!

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kind of but not quite and also at a huge cost but its more portable at least for example the 980m is 25% worse then my gtx 970 desktop model so yeah its coming a long way but its not there yet sadly

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Alienware 18 R3

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I wonder what kind of laptop will have those monstrosity.

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Mine is coming in the mail tomorrow. Sager NP9377. I got it from XOTICPC.

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whoa what is this kind of blasphemous wicked sorcery ?

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