GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 880M SLI - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

GeForce GTX 880M SLI

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

N15E-GX-A2

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

September 2015

March 2014

SLI options

+

+

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

954 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

2x 3540 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

206 Watt

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

2x 8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

2x 256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

5000 MHz

Shared memory

-

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12_1

12 (FL 11_0)

CUDA

+

+

Optimus

-

+