NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
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.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.87 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT.
General info
Of GeForce 9800M GTS SLI's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
1.45
Architecture
G9x
Code name
NB9E-GT
Type
Laptop
Release date
15 July 2008
Technical specs
GeForce 9800M GTS SLI's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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.
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
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 benchmarks performance of GeForce 9800M GTS SLI. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
5.87
3DMark Vantage Performance
5663
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce 9800M GTS SLI is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce 9800M GTS SLI performance compared to its nearest competitors.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 9800M GTS SLI from AMD is Radeon RX Vega 10, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our rating.