NVIDIA GeForce 9800S videocard review

GeForce 9800S videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 15 July 2008. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G94.

Core clock speed - 1500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 19.2 billion / sec. Pipelines - 64. Floating-point performance - 192 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 505 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 75 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 51.2 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38582

636

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

427

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	636
PassMark - G2D Mark	427

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G94
Launch date	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	348
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1500 MHz
CUDA cores	64
Floating-point performance	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	64
Texture fill rate	19.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	505 million

Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF + HDA
Display Connectors	VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
SLI