GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI vs 9800M GTX

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1064not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.09no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)G7x (2005−2006)
GPU code nameG92G71M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 July 2008 (16 years ago)12 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$328.50 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores11264
CUDA cores per GPU112no data
Core clock speed500 MHz16 MHz
Boost clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistors754 million556 Million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate28.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops420no data
ROPs16no data
TMUs56no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2x512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)GDDR3
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 July 2008 12 October 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 90 Watt

9800M GTX has an age advantage of 1 year, a 38.5% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
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