NVIDIA · Tesla (derived from codename prefix) · 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GTX: 512 MB GDDR3, 140 W, 128 CUDA cores. Launched March 28, 2008 at $299.
- Memory
- 512 MB
- Power
- 140 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory512 MB
52 of 290 in GeForce
Power140 W
12 of 243 by higher draw in GeForce
CUDA cores128
18 of 154 in GeForce
Launch price$299
39 of 161 in GeForce
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 512 MB
- Memory type
- GDDR3
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,100 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 70.4 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 128
- SM count
- 16
- TMUs
- 64
- ROPs
- 16
- Pixel fill rate
- 10.8 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 43.2 GT/s
Clocks
- Base clock
- 675 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 140 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 299 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Tesla (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- G92-420-A2
- Process
- 65 nm
- Transistors
- 754 million
- Die size
- 324 mm²
- Series
- GeForce
- Launch date
- March 28, 2008
Not recorded by the source: generation, boost clock, fp32 and fp64.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce 9800 GTX ranks 52nd of 290 for memory capacity. Its 140 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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