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 (16 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed600 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors505 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate19.20of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs32of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

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 compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
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

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9800S is Radeon HD 6450M.

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