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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9800 GT sales 21 July 2008 at a recommended price of $160. This is Tesla architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57.6 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 1-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9" (22.9 cm). 2x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 105 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.31 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

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General info

Of GeForce 9800 GT's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

467

Value for money (0-100)

11.23

Architecture

Tesla

Code name

G92B

Type

Desktop

Release date

21 July 2008

Launch price (MSRP)

$160

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$103.99

of 6300 (Quadro RTX 6000)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines

112

of 8192 (Radeon RX Vega 64)

CUDA cores

112

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

754 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion / sec

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce 9800 GT's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Length

9" (22.9 cm)

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

SLI options

2-way

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800 GT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800 GT.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S / PDIF

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 9800 GT. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision

CUDA

SLI

API support

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

DirectX

10.0

OpenGL

2.1

of 4.6

Video card benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce 9800 GT. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

3.31

Passmark

9800 GT

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

GeForce 9800 GT performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

9800 GT

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

GeForce 9800 GT performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

9800 GT

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

GeForce 9800 GT performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

9800 GT

minimum Athlon 64 2000+

recommended Athlon 64 2000+

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce 9800 GT performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

101.51 %

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

98.79 %

NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 9800 GT from AMD is Radeon HD 6550A, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.