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GeForce 9 series
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The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 released in March 2008, is the flagship unit of the GeForce 9 series of graphics cards sporting dual G92 GPU in an SLI configuration. This particular model manufactured by NVIDIA board-partner, XFX.
Release dateFebruary 21, 2008;17 years ago (February 21, 2008)
CodenameG9x
Architecture Tesla
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GE series
  • GeForce GS series
  • GeForce GSO series
  • GeForce GT series
  • GeForce GTX series
  • GeForce GTX+ series
  • GeForce GX2 series
Transistors210M 65 nm (G98)
  • 314M 65 nm (G96)
  • 505M 65 nm (G94)
  • 754M 65 nm (G92)
  • 754M 55 nm (G92B)
Cards
Entry-level
  • 9100
  • 9200
  • 9300 GS/GT
  • 9300 GE
  • 9400 GS/GT
Mid-range
  • 9500 GS/GT
  • 9600
High-end9800 GT/GTX/GTX+
Enthusiast9800 GX2
API support
DirectX Direct3D 10.0
Shader Model 4.0
OpenCL OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL OpenGL 3.3
History
Predecessor GeForce 8 series
Variant GeForce 100 series
Successor GeForce 200 series
Support status
Unsupported

The GeForce 9 series (also known as the GeForce 9000 series) is the ninth generation of Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. The products are based on an updated Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCI Express 2.0 support, improved color and z-compression, and built on a 65 nm process, later using 55 nm process to reduce power consumption and die size (GeForce 8 G8x GPUs only supported PCIe 1.1 and were built on 90 nm process or 80 nm process).

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GeForce 9100 series

Geforce 9100 G

GeForce 9300 series

Geforce 9300 GS

On May 1, 2008, the GeForce 9300 GS was officially launched. [1]

GeForce 9400 series

GeForce 9400 GT

On August 27, 2008, the GeForce 9400 GT was officially launched.

GeForce 9500 series

GeForce 9500 GT

Gigabyte GeForce 9500 GT Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT.JPG
Gigabyte GeForce 9500 GT
BFG GeForce 9500 GT without heatsink BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT.jpg
BFG GeForce 9500 GT without heatsink

On July 29, 2008, the GeForce 9500 GT was officially launched.

GeForce 9500 GS

The 9500 GS is an OEM card that is based on the 9500 GT but geared towards the mainstream audience.

GeForce 9600 series

GeForce 9600 GT

GeForce 9600 GT with cooler removed Geforce 9600 GT GE.JPG
GeForce 9600 GT with cooler removed
Asus Geforce 9600 GT NVIDIA 9600 GT no cooler front.jpg
Asus Geforce 9600 GT
Nvidia G94 GPU on a Geforce 9600 GT NVIDIA G94 GPU 9600 GT.jpg
Nvidia G94 GPU on a Geforce 9600 GT

On February 21, 2008, the GeForce 9600 GT was officially launched. It was an upgrade of 8600 GTS.

GeForce 9600 GS

GeForce 9600GS from an HP computer; notice the SLI connector. Unlike the 9600GT, it doesn't require an external PCI-Express power supply. NVidia GeForce 9600GS.jpg
GeForce 9600GS from an HP computer; notice the SLI connector. Unlike the 9600GT, it doesn't require an external PCI-Express power supply.

The GeForce 9600GS is a Hewlett Packard OEM card. It is based on a G94a core clocked at 500 MHz. It features 768 MB of DDR2 memory on a 192-bit bus.

GeForce 9600 GSO

The GeForce 9600 GSO was essentially a renamed 8800 GS. This tactic has been seen before in products such as the GeForce 7900 GTO to clear unsold stock when it is made obsolete by the next generation. Just like the 8800 GS, the 9600 GSO features 96 stream processors, a 550 MHz core clock with shaders clocked at 1,375 MHz, and either 384 or 768 MB of memory clocked at 800 MHz on a 192-bit memory bus. Some manufacturers have mistakenly listed some of their 768 MB models that have 96 stream processors as being based on the G94 chip, rather than the G92. [10]

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

After clearing the old 8800 GS stock, Nvidia revised the specification with a new core, and 512 MB of memory clocked at 900 MHz on a 256-bit bus. [11] For these cards, the number of stream processors is halved to 48, with the core frequency increased to 650 MHz and the shader frequency increased to 1625 MHz. Some of these cards have 1024 megabytes of memory while still being a 512 model. The revised version is considered inferior in performance to the old version.[ according to whom? ]

GeForce 9600 GTX

XFX released a 9600 GTX based on the G92 chip featuring 96 stream processors, a 580 MHz core clock, 1450 MHz shaders and 512 MB of GDDR3 running at 1400 MHz on a 256-bit bus. Other than clock speeds, it is functionally the desktop equivalent version of the 9800M GT. [12]

GeForce 9800 series

The GeForce 9800 series contains the GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTX+ and GT variants. [13]

GeForce 9800 GX2

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An NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 in a PC.

On March 18, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GX2 was officially launched.

The GeForce 9800 GX2 has the following specifications: [14] [15]

GeForce 9800 GTX

On April 1, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GTX was officially launched.

Taken from an eVGA specification sheet: [21]

In July 2008 Nvidia released a refresh of the 9800 GTX: the 9800 GTX+ (55 nm manufacturing process). It has faster core (738 MHz) and shader (1836 MHz) clocks. Since March 2009 this design is manufactured as GeForce GTS 250.

GeForce 9800 GT

The 9800GT is identical to an 8800GT, although some were manufactured using a 55 nm technology instead of the 65 nm technology that debuted on the 8800GT. [24] The newer (55 nm) version supports HybridPower while the 65 nm version does not.

ASUSTeK have released a 9800GT with Tri-SLI support. [25]

Taken from the Nvidia product detail page. [26]

Technical Summary of Desktop G9x GPUs

ModelYear Code name Fab (nm)Transistors (Million)Die size (mm2) Bus interface Config core1Clock rate Fillrate Memory API support (version)Processing power G FLOPs TDP (watts)Comments
Core (MHz)Shader (MHz)Memory (MHz)Pixel (GP/s)Texture (GT/s)Size (MB)Bandwidth (GB/s)Bus typeBus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan
GeForce 9300 mGPUOctober 2008MCP7A-S65282162PCIe 2.0 x1616:8:44501200800
1333
1.83.6Up to 512 from system memory6.4/12.8
10.664/21.328
DDR2
DDR3
64/12810.03.357.6based on 8400 GS
GeForce 9400 mGPUOctober 2008MCP7A-U65282162PCIe 2.0 x1616:8:45801400800
1333
2.324.64Up to 512 from system memory6.4/12.8
10.664/21.328
DDR2
DDR3
64/12867.212based on 8400 GS
GeForce 9300 GE [27] June 2008G9865 ?86PCIe 2.0 x168:8:454013005002.164.32568DDR26431.225
GeForce 9300 GS [27] June 2008G9865 ?86PCIe 2.0 x168:8:456714005002.2684.55128DDR26433.6 ??
GeForce 9400 GTAugust 27, 2008G96a/b65/55314144PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI16:8:45501400800
1600
2.24.4256, 512, 102412.8
25.6
GDDR2
GDDR3
12867.250
GeForce 9500 GTJuly 29, 2008G96a/b65/55314144PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI32:16:855014001000
1600
4.48.8256, 512, 102416.0
25.6
DDR2
GDDR3
128134.450
GeForce 9600 GSOMay 2008G9265754324PCIe 2.0 x1696:48:12550137516006.626.4384, 768, 153638.4GDDR319239684
GeForce 9600 GSO 512October 2008G94a/b65/55505240/196?PCIe 2.0 x1648:24:166501625180010.415.651257.6GDDR325623490
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition2009G94b55505196?PCIe 2.0 x1664:32:16600
625
1500
1625
1400/1800
1800
9.6
10
19.2
20
512, 102444.8/57.6
57.6
GDDR3256288
312
59Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9600 GTFebruary 21, 2008G94a/b65/55505240/196?PCIe 2.0 x1664:32:166501625180010.420.8512, 1024, 204857.6GDDR325631295
GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition2009G92b55754260PCIe 2.0 x16112:56:1655013751400
1600
1800
8.830.8512, 102444.8
51.2
57.6
GDDR325646275Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9800 GTJuly 2008G92a/b/a265/55/65754324/260/324PCIe 2.0 x16112:56:16600/600/5501500/1500/137518009.633.6512, 102457.6GDDR3256504/504/465125/105/75Some 65 nm cards are rebranded 8800 GT cards.

G92a2 Core Voltage 1.0V

GeForce 9800 GTXApril 1, 2008G9265754324PCIe 2.0 x16128:64:166751688220010.843.251270.4GDDR3256648.192140
GeForce 9800 GTX+July 16, 2008G92b55754260PCIe 2.0 x16128:64:167381836220011.80847.232512, 102470.4GDDR3256705.024141
GeForce 9800 GX2March 18, 20082× G92652× 7542× 324PCIe 2.0 x162× 128:64:16600150020002× 9.62× 38.42× 5122× 64.0GDDR32× 2562× 576197
ModelYear Codename Fab (nm)Transistors (Million)Die size (mm2) Bus interface Config core1Core (MHz)Shader (MHz)Memory (MHz)Pixel (GP/s)Texture (GT/s)Size (MiB)Bandwidth (GB/s)Bus typeBus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan Processing power G FLOPs TDP (watts)Comments

Features

ModelFeatures
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) PureVideo 2 with VP2,
BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
PureVideo 3 with VP3,
BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
GeForce 9300 GE (G98)YesNoYes
GeForce 9300 GS (G98)
GeForce 9400 GTYesNo
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9800 GTXYes
3-way
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GX2Yes

GeForce 9M Series

All graphical processing units in the GeForce 9M series feature:

9100M G

9200M GS

9300M G

9300M GS

9400M G

9500M G

9500M GS

9600M GS

9600M GT

9650M GT

9700M GT

9700M GTS

9800M GS

9800M GTS

9800M GT

9800M GTX

Technical summary

ModelRelease date Codename InterfaceFabrication process (nm)Core clock max (MHz)Peak fillrate ShadersMemoryTexture unitsRaster operatorsPower consumption (Watts) Transistor count (Millions)Theoretical shader processing rate (GigaFLOPS)
Billion pixel/sBillion bilinear texel/sBillion bilinear FP16 texel/sBillion FP32 pixel/sCUDA coresClock (MHz)Bandwidth max (GB/s) DRAM type Bus width (bit)Size (MB)Effective DDR clock (MHz)
GeForce 9100M G ?MCP77MH MCP79MHPCI65450 ? ? ? ?8108021GB/sDDR2 from RAMdepend RAM configurationdepend RAM configurationdepend RAM configuration ?4 ? ?26
GeForce 9200M GSG9865530 ? ? ?81300 GDDR2 GDDR3 256 ? ? ? ?31
GeForce 9300M GG9865400 ?3.2 ? ?168009.6642561200 (600) ? ? ? ?38
GeForce 9300M GSG9865 ? ? ? ? ?161400 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 642561400 (700) ? ? ? ?34
GeForce 9400M GMCP79MX65450 ? ? ? ?161100 ?128 ? ?1228254
GeForce 9500M G65 ? ? ? ? ?161250 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 128256, 512, 10241600 (800) ? ? ? ?60
GeForce 9500M GSG8465479 ?7.6 ? ?3295022.41285121400 (700) ?8 ?289 ?
GeForce 9600M GSG9665430 ? ? ? ?32107525.3 GDDR2 GDDR3 12810241600 (800) ? ? ?314103
GeForce 9600M GTG9665500 ? ? ? ?321250 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 128256, 512, 10241600 (800) ? ?23314120
GeForce 9650M GS65625 ?10 ? ?32125025.61285121600 (800) ? ?29289120
GeForce 9700M GTG96625 ?10 ? ?32155025.6GDDR31285121600 (800) ? ? ? ?148.8
GeForce 9700M GTSG94530 ?12.7 ? ?48132551.2256 ?1600 (800) ? ? ? ?190.8
GeForce 9800M GTSG94600 ?19.2 ? ?64150051.22565121600 (800) ? ? ? ?288
GeForce 9800M GTG94500 ?24 ? ?96125051.22565121600 (800) ? ? ? ?360
GeForce 9800M GTXG92500 ?28.0 ? ?112137551.22565121600 (800) ?75 ? ?420

Discontinued support

Nvidia announced that as of April 1, 2016, they would cease driver support for the GeForce 9 series. [30] [31]

See also

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