Benchmarks: System and Gaming
The GT80's CPU is mighty, there's plenty of RAM, the storage array is lightning, and when you combine all that with a couple of GTX 980M, you get chart-topping performance whichever way you look at it.
Full-HD Gaming Performance - 1,920x1,080 (Average FPS) |
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| Game | Quality Settings | MSI GT80 2QE-023UK |
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(2x GeForce GTX 980M 8GB) |
(2x GeForce GTX 970M 3GB) |
(GeForce GTX 980M 8GB) |
(GeForce GTX 980M 4GB) |
(GeForce GTX 970M 6GB) |
(GeForce GTX 860M 2GB) |
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| BioShock Infinite | Medium | 245.7 |
218.5 |
156.2 |
144.2 |
129.6 |
73.1 |
| High | 226.0 |
192.3 |
142.4 |
123.7 |
115.9 |
61.4 |
|
| Max | 156.3 |
126.9 |
86.7 |
85.6 |
70.7 |
35.6 |
|
| Total War: Rome II | High | 244.5 |
197.0 |
173.5 |
145.3 |
146.7 |
72.5 |
| Very High | 172.1 |
135.4 |
110.1 |
99.2 |
88.8 |
44.0 |
|
| Extreme | 93.7 |
72.1 |
57.4 |
55.7 |
46.2 |
21.6 |
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Gaming is supposed to be the GT80 Titan SLI's forte, and to showcase how capable it is, we've benchmarked a couple of games with varying degrees of image quality at the laptop's native 1080p resolution.
The results are no surprise: with dual GTX 980Ms at the helm, you can dial everything up to maximum and easily maintain silky-smooth framerates. Indeed, the performance is so impressive that you do begin to wish that MSI had included a higher-res display.
How would two GTX 980M GPUs cope with a 4K resolution? We found out by attaching an external 4K monitor via Mini-DisplayPort. The laptop was able to return an average framerate of 55.4 in BioShock Infinite with maximum quality settings, and 34.2 frames per second when playing Total War: Rome II with the extreme quality preset. Dropping down to very high quality in the latter title increased average fps to 68.7, and there's no doubt, there's enough graphics power on offer here to enable gaming at higher resolutions. If anything, dual GTX 980Ms are seriously overkill for a 1080p panel.
