![]() 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 date | February 21, 2008 |
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Codename | G9x |
Architecture | Tesla |
Models | GeForce series
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Transistors | 210M 65 nm (G98)
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Cards | |
Entry-level |
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Mid-range |
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High-end | 9800 GT/GTX/GTX+ |
Enthusiast | 9800 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).
On May 1, 2008, the GeForce 9300 GS was officially launched. [1]
On August 27, 2008, the GeForce 9400 GT was officially launched.
On July 29, 2008, the GeForce 9500 GT was officially launched.
The 9500 GS is an OEM card that is based on the 9500 GT but geared towards the mainstream audience.
On February 21, 2008, the GeForce 9600 GT was officially launched. It was an upgrade of 8600 GTS.
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.
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]
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? ]
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]
The GeForce 9800 series contains the GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTX+ and GT variants. [13]
On March 18, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GX2 was officially launched.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 has the following specifications: [14] [15]
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.
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]
Model | Year | Code name | Fab (nm) | Transistors (Million) | Die size (mm2) | Bus interface | Config core1 | Clock rate | Fillrate | Memory | API support (version) | Processing power G FLOPs | TDP (watts) | Comments | ||||||||
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Core (MHz) | Shader (MHz) | Memory (MHz) | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | DirectX | OpenGL | Vulkan | |||||||||||
GeForce 9300 mGPU | October 2008 | MCP7A-S | 65 | 282 | 162 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 16:8:4 | 450 | 1200 | 800 1333 | 1.8 | 3.6 | Up to 512 from system memory | 6.4/12.8 10.664/21.328 | DDR2 DDR3 | 64/128 | 10.0 | 3.3 | — | 57.6 | based on 8400 GS | |
GeForce 9400 mGPU | October 2008 | MCP7A-U | 65 | 282 | 162 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 16:8:4 | 580 | 1400 | 800 1333 | 2.32 | 4.64 | Up to 512 from system memory | 6.4/12.8 10.664/21.328 | DDR2 DDR3 | 64/128 | 67.2 | 12 | based on 8400 GS | |||
GeForce 9300 GE [27] | June 2008 | G98 | 65 | ? | 86 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 8:8:4 | 540 | 1300 | 500 | 2.16 | 4.3 | 256 | 8 | DDR2 | 64 | 31.2 | 25 | ||||
GeForce 9300 GS [27] | June 2008 | G98 | 65 | ? | 86 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 8:8:4 | 567 | 1400 | 500 | 2.268 | 4.5 | 512 | 8 | DDR2 | 64 | 33.6 | ?? | ||||
GeForce 9400 GT | August 27, 2008 | G96a/b | 65/55 | 314 | 144 | PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI | 16:8:4 | 550 | 1400 | 800 1600 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 256, 512, 1024 | 12.8 25.6 | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 67.2 | 50 | ||||
GeForce 9500 GT | July 29, 2008 | G96a/b | 65/55 | 314 | 144 | PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI | 32:16:8 | 550 | 1400 | 1000 1600 | 4.4 | 8.8 | 256, 512, 1024 | 16.0 25.6 | DDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 134.4 | 50 | ||||
GeForce 9600 GSO | May 2008 | G92 | 65 | 754 | 324 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 96:48:12 | 550 | 1375 | 1600 | 6.6 | 26.4 | 384, 768, 1536 | 38.4 | GDDR3 | 192 | 396 | 84 | ||||
GeForce 9600 GSO 512 | October 2008 | G94a/b | 65/55 | 505 | 240/196? | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 48:24:16 | 650 | 1625 | 1800 | 10.4 | 15.6 | 512 | 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 234 | 90 | ||||
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition | 2009 | G94b | 55 | 505 | 196? | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 64:32:16 | 600 625 | 1500 1625 | 1400/1800 1800 | 9.6 10 | 19.2 20 | 512, 1024 | 44.8/57.6 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 288 312 | 59 | Core Voltage 1.0V | |||
GeForce 9600 GT | February 21, 2008 | G94a/b | 65/55 | 505 | 240/196? | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 64:32:16 | 650 | 1625 | 1800 | 10.4 | 20.8 | 512, 1024, 2048 | 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 312 | 95 | ||||
GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition | 2009 | G92b | 55 | 754 | 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 112:56:16 | 550 | 1375 | 1400 1600 1800 | 8.8 | 30.8 | 512, 1024 | 44.8 51.2 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 462 | 75 | Core Voltage 1.0V | |||
GeForce 9800 GT | July 2008 | G92a/b/a2 | 65/55/65 | 754 | 324/260/324 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 112:56:16 | 600/600/550 | 1500/1500/1375 | 1800 | 9.6 | 33.6 | 512, 1024 | 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 504/504/465 | 125/105/75 | Some 65 nm cards are rebranded 8800 GT cards. G92a2 Core Voltage 1.0V | |||
GeForce 9800 GTX | April 1, 2008 | G92 | 65 | 754 | 324 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 675 | 1688 | 2200 | 10.8 | 43.2 | 512 | 70.4 | GDDR3 | 256 | 648.192 | 140 | ||||
GeForce 9800 GTX+ | July 16, 2008 | G92b | 55 | 754 | 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 738 | 1836 | 2200 | 11.808 | 47.232 | 512, 1024 | 70.4 | GDDR3 | 256 | 705.024 | 141 | ||||
GeForce 9800 GX2 | March 18, 2008 | 2× G92 | 65 | 2× 754 | 2× 324 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 2× 128:64:16 | 600 | 1500 | 2000 | 2× 9.6 | 2× 38.4 | 2× 512 | 2× 64.0 | GDDR3 | 2× 256 | 2× 576 | 197 | ||||
Model | Year | Codename | Fab (nm) | Transistors (Million) | Die size (mm2) | Bus interface | Config core1 | Core (MHz) | Shader (MHz) | Memory (MHz) | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Size (MiB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | DirectX | OpenGL | Vulkan | Processing power G FLOPs | TDP (watts) | Comments |
Model | Features | ||
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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) | Yes | No | Yes |
GeForce 9300 GS (G98) | |||
GeForce 9400 GT | Yes | No | |
GeForce 9500 GT | |||
GeForce 9600 GSO | |||
GeForce 9600 GT | |||
GeForce 9800 GT | |||
GeForce 9800 GTX | Yes 3-way | ||
GeForce 9800 GTX+ | |||
GeForce 9800 GX2 | Yes |
All graphical processing units in the GeForce 9M series feature:
Model | Release date | Codename | Interface | Fabrication process (nm) | Core clock max (MHz) | Peak fillrate | Shaders | Memory | Texture units | Raster operators | Power consumption (Watts) | Transistor count (Millions) | Theoretical shader processing rate (GigaFLOPS) | ||||||||
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Billion pixel/s | Billion bilinear texel/s | Billion bilinear FP16 texel/s | Billion FP32 pixel/s | CUDA cores | Clock (MHz) | Bandwidth max (GB/s) | DRAM type | Bus width (bit) | Size (MB) | Effective DDR clock (MHz) | |||||||||||
GeForce 9100M G | ? | MCP77MH MCP79MH | PCI | 65 | 450 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 8 | 1080 | 21GB/s | DDR2 from RAM | depend RAM configuration | depend RAM configuration | depend RAM configuration | ? | 4 | ? | ? | 26 |
GeForce 9200M GS | G98 | 65 | 530 | ? | ? | ? | 8 | 1300 | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 256 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 31 | ||||||
GeForce 9300M G | G98 | 65 | 400 | ? | 3.2 | ? | ? | 16 | 800 | 9.6 | 64 | 256 | 1200 (600) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 38 | |||
GeForce 9300M GS | G98 | 65 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 16 | 1400 | ? | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 64 | 256 | 1400 (700) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 34 | ||
GeForce 9400M G | MCP79MX | 65 | 450 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 16 | 1100 | ? | 128 | ? | ? | 12 | 282 | 54 | |||||
GeForce 9500M G | 65 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 16 | 1250 | ? | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 256, 512, 1024 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 60 | |||
GeForce 9500M GS | G84 | 65 | 479 | ? | 7.6 | ? | ? | 32 | 950 | 22.4 | 128 | 512 | 1400 (700) | ? | 8 | ? | 289 | ? | |||
GeForce 9600M GS | G96 | 65 | 430 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 32 | 1075 | 25.3 | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 1024 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | 314 | 103 | ||
GeForce 9600M GT | G96 | 65 | 500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 32 | 1250 | ? | GDDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 256, 512, 1024 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | 23 | 314 | 120 | ||
GeForce 9650M GS | 65 | 625 | ? | 10 | ? | ? | 32 | 1250 | 25.6 | 128 | 512 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | 29 | 289 | 120 | ||||
GeForce 9700M GT | G96 | 625 | ? | 10 | ? | ? | 32 | 1550 | 25.6 | GDDR3 | 128 | 512 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 148.8 | |||
GeForce 9700M GTS | G94 | 530 | ? | 12.7 | ? | ? | 48 | 1325 | 51.2 | 256 | ? | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 190.8 | ||||
GeForce 9800M GTS | G94 | 600 | ? | 19.2 | ? | ? | 64 | 1500 | 51.2 | 256 | 512 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 288 | ||||
GeForce 9800M GT | G94 | 500 | ? | 24 | ? | ? | 96 | 1250 | 51.2 | 256 | 512 | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 360 | ||||
GeForce 9800M GTX | G92 | 500 | ? | 28.0 | ? | ? | 112 | 1375 | 51.2 | 256 | 512 | 1600 (800) | ? | 75 | ? | ? | 420 |
Nvidia announced that as of April 1, 2016, they would cease driver support for the GeForce 9 series. [30] [31]