GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Maxwell 2.0GeForce 900 SeriesLaptopGDDR52015Notebook OEM

Key Metrics

Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Launch Date
2015-09-21
CUDA Cores
2,048
Memory
8 GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Process Node
TSMC 28 nm
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Why It Mattered

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile matters as a mobile GeForce 900 Series implementation from the Maxwell 2.0 generation around 2015. Laptop GPU names often hide large differences in power limits, cooling, memory, and OEM firmware, so tracking the exact variant explains why similarly named systems can perform differently.

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Sources

Sources reviewed: 2026-06-20

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Independent reference sources

  1. TechPowerUp GPU SpecsModel-level specification reference for this GPU entryOpen source

Derived datasets and spec dumps

  1. RightNow GPU DatabaseOpen data inventory used for bulk normalization and cross-checking Derived/spec-dump source. Treat as a reference dataset, not independent historical verification.Open source

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