GeForce 9800 GTX+: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 9800 GTX+ provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.28% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9800 GTX+ sales 16 January 2009 at a recommended price of $229 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 70.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 141 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9800 GTX+: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1039 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.03 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92B | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 16 January 2009 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $229 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9800 GTX+'s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9800 GTX+'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 128 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| CUDA cores | 128 | |
| Core clock speed | 738 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 141 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 47.23 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.47 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9800 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800 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 | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 70.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800 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 | HDTVDual Link DVI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 9800 GTX+, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9800 GTX+. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. 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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800 GTX+ is Radeon R7 M265DX, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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