NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT SLI: specs and benchmarks

NVIDIA started GeForce 9800M GT SLI sales 15 July 2008. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 130 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 9800M GT SLI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	858
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.08
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name	NB9E-GT2
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	15 July 2008 (15 years ago)
Current price	$545	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce 9800M GT SLI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9800M GT SLI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	500 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1508 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce 9800M GT SLI's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800M GT SLI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 9800M GT SLI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800M GT SLI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

9800M GT SLI 1.96

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

9800M GT SLI 6271

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9800M GT SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	8−9
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−12
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	8−9
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	8−9
Forza Horizon 4	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1

4K
High Preset

Far Cry 5	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3
Metro Exodus	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

Closest competitors

GeForce 9800M GT SLI's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

Radeon HD 7730M 100.51

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 100

UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 32 EU) 100

GeForce 9800M GT SLI 100

Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) 99.49

Radeon HD 6850M 99.49

Radeon HD 6650M 99.49

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800M GT SLI is Mobility Radeon HD 5850, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.