GeForce 9800S: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9800S sales 15 July 2008. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 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 9800S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG94
Market segmentLaptop
Release date15 July 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores64of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed600 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors505 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate19.20of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs32of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache64 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsVGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIF + HDA

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce 9800S, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800S. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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