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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI: specs and benchmarks

Price now 149$

Games supported 62%

Year of release 2008

Performance 3.85

Questions 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 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

3.85%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

GeForce RTX 4090

General info

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

Place in performance rating	588
Value for money	0.97
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name	NB9E-GT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	15 July 2008 (14 years ago)
Current price	$149	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Value for money

To calculate the index we compare the characteristics of graphics cards against their prices.

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 18432 (AD102)
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	55/65 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
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 have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

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 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Shared memory	-

API support

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

DirectX	10
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.

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.

9800M GTS SLI 3.85

3DMark Vantage Performance

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

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.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2
Metro Exodus	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Metro Exodus	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4
Forza Horizon 4	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6
Forza Horizon 4	3−4
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

Relative perfomance

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

Intel UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU) 102.08

Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 100.52

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 100

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI 100

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 99.74

AMD Radeon HD 8770M 99.22

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 98.96

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 9800M GTS SLI from AMD is Radeon HD 7870M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.