GeForce 9800S: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9800S sales 15 July 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 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 an integrated video card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 9800S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G94 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 July 2008 (15 years ago) |
Technical specs
GeForce 9800S's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9800S's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 64 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 64 | |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 505 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 19.2 billion/sec | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 192 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9800S 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | IGP | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800S: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800S. 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 | VGAHDMISingle Link DVI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF + HDA |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 9800S, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800S is Radeon E6465.
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