NVIDIA started GeForce 9800M GTS SLI sales 15 July 2008. This is a G9x architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.99% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	845
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.31
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name	NB9E-GT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	15 July 2008 (15 years old)
Current price	$149	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	128	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	600 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1508 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9800M GTS 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	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800M GTS 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 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

API support

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

DirectX	10
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800M GTS 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 GTS SLI 1.99

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 GTS SLI 5663

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9800M GTS 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.

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

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

Full HD
High Preset

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

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Battlefield 5	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Far Cry 5	1−2
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Metro Exodus	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Hitman 3	2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

Relative perfomance

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

GeForce 825M 101.51

Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics 100.5

Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8570M Dual Graphics 100

GeForce 9800M GTS SLI 100

Radeon R7 M270 99.5

Radeon HD 8730M 99.5

GeForce 8800M GTX SLI 99.5

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800M GTS SLI is Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8570M Dual Graphics, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.