February 21, 2008; 17 years ago (February 21, 2008)
Codename
G9x
Architecture
Tesla
Models
GeForce series
GeForce GE series
GeForce GS series
GeForce GSO series
GeForce GT series
GeForce GTX series
GeForce GTX+ series
GeForce GX2 series
Transistors
210M 65 nm (G98)
314M 65 nm (G96)
505M 65 nm (G94)
754M 65 nm (G92)
754M 55 nm (G92B)
Cards
Entry-level
9100
9200
9300 GS/GT
9300 GE
9400 GS/GT
Mid-range
9500 GS/GT
9600
High-end
9800 GT/GTX/GTX+
Enthusiast
9800 GX2
API support
Direct3D
Direct3D 10.0 Shader Model 4.0
OpenCL
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL
OpenGL 3.3
History
Predecessor
GeForce 8 series
Variant
GeForce 100 series
Successor
GeForce 200 series
The GeForce 9 series is the ninth generation of Nvidia's GeForce series of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. Products are based on a slightly repolished[clarification needed] Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCIe 2.0 support, improved color and z-compression, and built on a 65 nm process, later using 55 nm process to reduce power consumption and die size (GeForce 8 G8x GPUs only supported PCIe 1.1 and were built on 90 nm process or 80 nm process).
650 MHz core clock, with a 1625 MHz unified shader clock
1008 MHz memory (2016 MHz datarate), 256-bit interface for 64.5GB/s of bandwidth. (57.6 GB/s for 1800 MHz configuration)
512–2048 MB of GDDR3 or DDR2 memory
505M transistor count
DirectX 10.0, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1,[8] and PCI-Express 2.0[9]
Supports second-generation PureVideo HD technology with partial VC1 decoding
Is HDCP compatible, but its implementation depends on the manufacturer
Supports CUDA and the Quantum Effects physics processing engine
Almost double the performance of the previous Nvidia mid-range card, the GeForce 8600GTS
GeForce 9600 GS
GeForce 9600GS from an HP computer; notice the SLI connector. Unlike the 9600GT, it doesn't require an external PCI-Express power supply.
The GeForce 9600GS is a Hewlett Packard OEM card. It is based on a G94a core clocked at 500 MHz. It features 768 MB of DDR2 memory on a 192-bit bus.
GeForce 9600 GSO
The GeForce 9600 GSO was essentially a renamed 8800 GS. This tactic has been seen before in products such as the GeForce 7900 GTO to clear unsold stock when it is made obsolete by the next generation. Just like the 8800 GS, the 9600 GSO features 96 stream processors, a 550 MHz core clock with shaders clocked at 1,375 MHz, and either 384 or 768 MB of memory clocked at 800 MHz on a 192-bit memory bus. Some manufacturers have mistakenly listed some of their 768 MB models that have 96 stream processors as being based on the G94 chip, rather than the G92.[10]
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
After clearing the old 8800 GS stock, Nvidia revised the specification with a new core, and 512 MB of memory clocked at 900 MHz on a 256-bit bus.[11] For these cards, the number of stream processors is halved to 48, with the core frequency increased to 650 MHz and the shader frequency increased to 1625 MHz. Some of these cards have 1024 megabytes of memory while still being a 512 model. The revised version is considered inferior in performance to the old version.[according to whom?]
GeForce 9600 GTX
XFX released a 9600 GTX based on the G92 chip featuring 96 stream processors, a 580 MHz core clock, 1450 MHz shaders and 512 MB of GDDR3 running at 1400 MHz on a 256-bit bus. Other than clock speeds, it is functionally the desktop equivalent version of the 9800M GT.[12]
GeForce 9800 Series
The GeForce 9800 series contains the GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTX+ and GT variants.[13]
GeForce 9800 GX2
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
On March 18, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GX2 was officially launched.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 has the following specifications:[14][15]
Dual PCBs, dual GPU design
197 W power consumption.[16]
Two 65nm process GPUs, with 256 total stream processors (128 per PCB).[17]
Supports Quad SLI
Power of Two underclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (G92) video cards in SLI Mode
1 GiB (512 MiB per PCB) GDDR3 memory
Supports DirectX 10, Shader Model 4, OpenGL 3.3, and PCI-Express 2.0
Supports 2nd generation PureVideo HD technology with partial VC1 decoding
Outputs include two DVI ports, an HDMI output, and S/PDIF in connector on board for routing audio through the HDMI cable[18]
DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 3.3, and PCI-Express 2.0
Supports 2nd generation PureVideo HD technology with partial VC1 decoding
Outputs include two DVI ports, an HDMI output (using Nvidia DVI to HDMI adapter (included)), and S/PDIF in connector on board for routing audio through the HDMI cable
Release date: 2008-04-01[22]
Launch Price of $349[23]
In July 2008 Nvidia released a refresh of the 9800 GTX: the 9800 GTX+ (55 nm manufacturing process). It has faster core (738 MHz) and shader (1836 MHz) clocks. Since March 2009 this design is manufactured as GeForce GTS 250.
GeForce 9800 GT
The 9800GT is identical to an 8800GT, although some were manufactured using a 55 nm technology instead of the 65 nm technology debuted on the 8800GT.[24] The newer (55 nm) version supports HybridPower while the 65 nm version does not.
ASUSTeK have released a 9800GT with Tri-SLI support.[25]
Taken from the Nvidia product detail page.[26]
112 CUDA cores
512–1024 MB of GDDR3 memory
256-bit memory interface width
600 MHz graphics clock
1500 MHz processor clock
900 MHz memory clock
33.6 Gtexel/s texture fill rate
57.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 3.3, and PCI-Express 2.0
Supports 2nd generation PureVideo HD technology with partial VC1 decoding
Technical Summary of Desktop G9x GPUs
1 Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
Model
Year
Code name
Fab (nm)
Transistors (Million)
Die size (mm2)
Bus interface
Config core1
Clock rate
Fillrate
Memory
API support (version)
Processing Power G FLOPs
TDP (watts)
Comments
Core (MHz)
Shader (MHz)
Memory (MHz)
Pixel (GP/s)
Texture (GT/s)
Size (MB)
Bandwidth (GB/s)
Bus type
Bus width (bit)
DirectX
OpenGL
Vulkan
GeForce 9300 mGPU
October 2008
MCP7A-S
65
282
162
PCIe 2.0 x16
16:8:4
450
1200
800 1333
1.8
3.6
Up to 512 from system memory
6.4/12.8 10.664/21.328
DDR2 DDR3
64/128
10.0
3.3
N/A
57.6
based on 8400 GS
GeForce 9400 mGPU
October 2008
MCP7A-U
65
282
162
PCIe 2.0 x16
16:8:4
580
1400
800 1333
2.32
4.64
Up to 512 from system memory
6.4/12.8 10.664/21.328
DDR2 DDR3
64/128
67.2
12
based on 8400 GS
GeForce 9300 GE[27]
June 2008
G98
65
?
86
PCIe 2.0 x16
8:8:4
540
1300
500
2.16
4.3
256
8
DDR2
64
31.2
25
GeForce 9300 GS[27]
June 2008
G98
65
?
86
PCIe 2.0 x16
8:8:4
567
1400
500
2.268
4.5
512
8
DDR2
64
33.6
??
GeForce 9400 GT
August 27, 2008
G96a/b
65/55
314
144
PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI
16:8:4
550
1400
800 1600
2.2
4.4
256, 512, 1024
12.8 25.6
GDDR2 GDDR3
128
67.2
50
GeForce 9500 GT
July 29, 2008
G96a/b
65/55
314
144
PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI
32:16:8
550
1400
1000 1600
4.4
8.8
256, 512, 1024
16.0 25.6
DDR2 GDDR3
128
134.4
50
GeForce 9600 GSO
May 2008
G92
65
754
324
PCIe 2.0 x16
96:48:12
550
1375
1600
6.6
26.4
384, 768, 1536
38.4
GDDR3
192
396
84
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
October 2008
G94a/b
65/55
505
240/196?
PCIe 2.0 x16
48:24:16
650
1625
1800
10.4
15.6
512
57.6
GDDR3
256
234
90
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
2009
G94b
55
505
196?
PCIe 2.0 x16
64:32:16
600 625
1500 1625
1400/1800 1800
9.6 10
19.2 20
512, 1024
44.8/57.6 57.6
GDDR3
256
288 312
59
Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9600 GT
February 21, 2008
G94a/b
65/55
505
240/196?
PCIe 2.0 x16
64:32:16
650
1625
1800
10.4
20.8
512, 1024, 2048
57.6
GDDR3
256
312
95
GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition
2009
G92b
55
754
260
PCIe 2.0 x16
112:56:16
550
1375
1400 1600 1800
8.8
30.8
512, 1024
44.8 51.2 57.6
GDDR3
256
462
75
Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9800 GT
July 2008
G92a/b/a2
65/55/65
754
324/260/324
PCIe 2.0 x16
112:56:16
600/600/550
1500/1500/1375
1800
9.6
33.6
512, 1024
57.6
GDDR3
256
504/504/465
125/105/75
Some 65 nm cards are rebranded 8800 GT cards.
G92a2 Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9800 GTX
April 1, 2008
G92
65
754
324
PCIe 2.0 x16
128:64:16
675
1688
2200
10.8
43.2
512
70.4
GDDR3
256
648.192
140
GeForce 9800 GTX+
July 16, 2008
G92b
55
754
260
PCIe 2.0 x16
128:64:16
738
1836
2200
11.808
47.232
512, 1024
70.4
GDDR3
256
705.024
141
GeForce 9800 GX2
March 18, 2008
2× G92
65
2× 754
2× 324
PCIe 2.0 x16
2× 128:64:16
600
1500
2000
2× 9.6
2× 38.4
2× 512
2× 64.0
GDDR3
2× 256
2× 576
197
Model
Year
Codename
Fab (nm)
Transistors (Million)
Die size (mm2)
Bus interface
Config core1
Core (MHz)
Shader (MHz)
Memory (MHz)
Pixel (GP/s)
Texture (GT/s)
Size (MiB)
Bandwidth (GB/s)
Bus type
Bus width (bit)
DirectX
OpenGL
Vulkan
Processing Power G FLOPs
TDP (watts)
Comments
Features
Compute Capability: 1.1 has support for Atomic functions, which are used to write thread-safe programs.
Model
Features
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
Coverage Sample AA
Angle Independent AF
128 bit OpenEXR
PureVideo 2 with VP2
Engine: (BSP and 128 AES)
GeForce 9400 GT
Yes
Yes
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9800 GTX
Yes 3-way (link 3 GTXs)
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GX2
Yes Quad (link 2 GX2s)
GeForce 9M Series
All graphical processing units in the GeForce 9M series feature:
Increased performance for similar power draw compared to GeForce 8M series for midrange and mid-high range notebooks
DirectX 10.0 and OpenGL 3.3 compatibility
16X antialiasing and PCI-Express 2.0 connectivity
Full HD DVD / Blu-ray hardware decoding
9100M G
1 TMU per pipeline
4 ROPs
8 stream processors
16 (v4.0) shader unified
26 GigaFLOPS
450 MHz core clock
1100 MHz shader clock
Integrated RAMDAC clock at 400 MHz
Memory clock depends on system memory
Up to 256 MB shared memory, 512 MB with Turbo Cache in Windows XP
64 bit memory interface (single-channel mode) / 128 bit memory interface (dual-channel mode)
Memory bandwidth depend on System Memory
1.8 Gtexels/s texture fill rate
(Specification based on Acer Aspire 4530 using EVEREST Ultimate Edition Version 4.60.1500PX and TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.4.6)[28]
9200M GS
8 stream processors
529 MHz core clock
1300 MHz shader clock
400 MHz memory clock
Up to 256 MB memory
64-bit memory interface
6.4 GB/s memory bandwidth
27.1 Gpixel/s pixel fill rate
4.2 Gtexel/s texture fill rate[29]
9300M G
16 stream processors
400 MHz core clock
800 MHz shader clock
600 MHz memory clock
Up to 512 MB memory
64-bit memory interface
1.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
3.2 Gtexels/s texture fill rate
9300M GS
8 stream processors
580 MHz core clock
1450 MHz shader clock
800 MHz memory clock
Up to 512 MB memory
64-bit memory interface
6.9 GB/s memory bandwidth
4.6 Gtexels/s texture fill rate
9400M G
16 stream processors
Memory clock depends on system memory
64 bit memory interface (single-channel mode) / 128 bit memory interface (dual-channel mode)