NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT videocard review

GeForce 9800M GT videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 29 July 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G92.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 24 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 96. Floating-point performance - 240 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 754 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 65 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 51.2 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

381

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

3237 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

3237.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	381
PassMark - G2D Mark	81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	3237 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	3237.000 Fps

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	82.85
Medium, 1024x768	52.69
High, 1024x768	34.29

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	66.00
High, 1024x768	37.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	150.90
Medium, 640x480	146.20
High, 800x600	144.90
Ultra, 1024x768	141.10

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

624.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G92
Launch date	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1340
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Gigaflops	360
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	754 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD