GeForce 9800M GTX: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 9800M GTX provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.03% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
Contents
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9800M GTX sales 15 July 2008 at a recommended price of $328.50. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9800M GTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1116 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.03 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.11 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 15 July 2008 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $328.50 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9800M GTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9800M GTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 112 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| CUDA cores per GPU | 112 | |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 28.00 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.28 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Gigaflops | 420 | |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9800M GTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800M GTX: 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 | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800M GTX. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 9800M GTX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800M GTX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
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.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce 9800M GTX 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.
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 6−7 |
Full HD
Medium
| Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Fortnite | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 1−2 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 6−7 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
High
| Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 24−27 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Dota 2 | 14−16 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Fortnite | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 1−2 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 6−7 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 6−7 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
Ultra
| Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3−4 | |
| Dota 2 | 14−16 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 6−7 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 6−7 | |
| Valorant | 30−35 |
Full HD
Epic
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
1440p
High
| Counter-Strike 2 | 4−5 | |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 7−8 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 10−12 | |
| Valorant | 2−3 |
1440p
Ultra
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1−2 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 |
1440p
Epic
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
4K
High
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16 | |
| Valorant | 6−7 |
4K
Ultra
| Dota 2 | 0−1 | |
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 2−3 |
4K
Epic
| Fortnite | 2−3 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800M GTX is Radeon HD 7640G, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 9800M GTX:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
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