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| 7.5 Out of 10 | 
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by Shawn-Baker (Sep, 2014)While the gains aren't as strong here as we saw under 3DMark 11, you can see looking above that the NVIDIA setup, though, has no issue separating itself from the top AMD offering.
by Ryan-Smith (Sep, 2014)NVIDIA has also been focused on memory efficiency, both for performance and power reasons, resulting in the L2 cache size been greatly increased.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the GeForce GTX 980M among Laptop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.5 | Overall Score |
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Benchmarks Real world tests of the GeForce GTX 980M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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It was simply unbelievable to see in person; a GPU inside of a gaming notebook be overclocked this far and be perfectly stable.
Again, if you were playing, and it was a blind test where you couldn't see what was powering the Oculus Rift, you would not guess that this was a gaming notebook.
| 4 Aug |
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NVIDIA's Tegra X1 Delivers Stunning Performance On Ubuntu Linux @ Phoronix.
In the article you will see the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+, Gigabyte's GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming, MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G and the ASUS Strix GTX 980 Ti OC Edition.
| 12 Mar |
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Considering the GTX 965M has 1024 CUDA cores many felt it would use GM206 as well, but that didn’t happen; in a similar fashion, those expecting (hoping) GTX 960M and 950M would use a derivative of GM206 are also going to be disappointed and it continues to use the GM107 chip.
Interestingly, the clocks and core configurations mean that potentially the GTX 950M is actually a bit slower than GTX 850M (640 cores at 936MHz + Boost compared to 914MHz + Boost), but NVIDIA doesn't disclose the full range of base clocks and Boost clocks so the 950M will hit higher clocks on average compared to 850M.
| 10 Feb |
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Although not inexpensive, it will allow customers to get some extra mileage out of their laptop, especially with the major improvements in performance we have seen with the Maxwell 2 based GTX 980M and GTX 970M.
This will let owners of older laptops, who are not interested in a complete upgrade, obtain the power of the new Maxwell 2 based GPUs from NVIDIA in their laptop.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | Nvidia |
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| GPU name | GM204 |
| Market | Laptop |
| Clock speed | 1,038 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 1,127 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M 540 MHz 8 GB |
raw performance
| Shading units | 1,536 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 96 |
| Render output processors | 64 |
| Pixel rate | 66.4 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 99.6 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 3,189 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,253 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 5,012 MHz |
| Memory bus | 256 bit |
| Memory | 8,192 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 160.4 GB/s |
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