NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9800M GTS SLI sales 15 July 2008. This is G9x architecture notebook card based on 55/65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 150 Watt.

General info

Of GeForce 9800M GTS SLI's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	533
Value for money	1.22
Architecture	G9x
GPU code name	NB9E-GT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	15 July 2008 (13 years ago)
Price now	$149	of 12999 (Quadro GV100)

Technical specs

GeForce 9800M GTS SLI's general performance parameters 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 15360 (Radeon RX 7900 XT)
Core clock speed	600 MHz	of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)
Number of transistors	1508 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55/65 nm	of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)
Thermal design power (TDP)	150 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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 don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Shared memory	-

API support

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

DirectX	DirectX 10, Shader 4.0
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce 9800M GTS SLI. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Game benchmarks

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.

Relative perfomance

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

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