NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

GeForce 9800M GTX videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 15 July 2008. At the time of release, the videocard cost $328.50. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G92.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 28 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 112. Floating-point performance - 280 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 754 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 75 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. 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
38579
454
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
89
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 454
PassMark - G2D Mark 89

Games performance

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

High, 1024x76836.00

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768102.75
Medium, 1024x76861.20
High, 1024x76839.15

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768210.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480244.10
Medium, 640x480240.60
High, 800x600249.40
Ultra, 1024x768224.20

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G92
Launch date 15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $328.50
Place in performance rating 1353
Price now $328.50
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 2.78

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz
CUDA cores per GPU 112
Floating-point performance 280 gflops
Gigaflops 420
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm
Pipelines 112
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 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 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI