NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9800M GT 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, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 65 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.98% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1067
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.18
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameNB9E-GT2
Market segmentLaptop
Release date15 July 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$61 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores96of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores96
Core clock speed500 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors754 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate24.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance240 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)
Gigaflops360

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9800M GT'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 sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800M GT: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800M GT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800M GT. 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 0.98

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

9800M GT 381

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 4011

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9800M GT 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.

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Hitman 3 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Hitman 3 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 0−1
Metro Exodus 1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
Hitman 3 3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
Hitman 3 1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1
Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce 9800M GT performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800M GT is Radeon HD 6490M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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