NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

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
38582
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