NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX videocard review

GeForce 9800 GTX videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 28 March 2008. At the time of release, the videocard cost $299. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G92.

Core clock speed - 1688 MHz. Texture fill rate - 43.2 billion / sec. Pipelines - 128. Floating-point performance - 432.1 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 754 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 140 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1100 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 70.4 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

366

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38591

769

Name	Value
PassMark - G2D Mark	366
PassMark - G3D Mark	769

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G92
Launch date	28 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	411
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1688 MHz
CUDA cores	128
Floating-point performance	432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt
Transistor count	754 million

Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI