NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

The NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX-based graphics card enables full-throttle lifelike game play while providing optimal power management with HybridPower™ technology*. The PureVideo® HD engine also delivers unmatched video and movie quality and SLI® compatibility provides amplified performance when coupled with NVIDIA nForce® SLI-ready motherboards. Dollar-for-dollar, this GPU packs great performance.

• NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology¹
  The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.

• Hardware Decode Acceleration
  Provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD movies.

• Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration
  Supports picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray and HD DVD movie experience.

• Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
  Provides post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies on a scene-by- scene basis for spectacular picture clarity.

• 3-way NVIDIA SLI® Technology²
  Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) under Windows Vista with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.

• NVIDIA HybridPower™ Technology³
  Lets you switch from the GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card to the motherboard GeForce GPU when running non graphically-intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.

• PCI Express 2.0 Support
  Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.

A complete solution

Unlock next generation platform features. With SLI, the GeForce 9800 GTX GPU offers increased performance up to 2x in a dual SLI configuration and up to 2.8x in 3-way SLI* mode. Its HybridPower technology* delivers graphics performance when you need it and low-power operation when you don’t. So, enjoy heart-stopping entertainment or power savings for everyday computing.


Specification

Cores	128
Core Clock (MHz)	675 MHz
Shader Clock (MHz)	1688 MHz
Memory Clock (MHz)	1100 MHz
Memory Amount	512MB GDDR3
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	70.4
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	43.2