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We first covered the launch of the new NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ on June 20, 2008. Launched right after the GT 200 series of graphics cards, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ is die-shrinked version of the venerable NVIDIA G92 GPU, used in cards like the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and the GeForce 8800 GT. Thanks to the die-shrink from 65 nm to 55 nm, NVIDIA was able to further boost the core and shader clock speeds of the GPU by 9.3%. Everything else was unchanged, including the memory clock which remained at 1.1 GHz. Hence, NVIDIA called it the GeForce 9800 GTX+ (Plus), instead of the GeForce 9900 GTX. For more details on the actual architecture of the G92 GPU, do take a look at our NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Tech Report. To find out more, read our Comprehensive Review! |
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Core / Card Code Name |
• G92 (D8E) |
| Manufacturing Process |
• 0.055 Micron (55 Nanometers) |
Transistor Count |
• 754 Million |
DirectX Support |
• 10 |
| Interface |
• PCI Express 2.0 |
| Stream Processors |
• 128 |
| Vertex Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
| Pixel Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
Textures Per Clock |
• Average 64 |
ROPs |
• 16 |
Core Clock Speed |
• 738 MHz |
| Shader Clock Speed |
• 1836 MHz |
| Fill Rate |
• 47232 MTexels/s |
| Memory Bus Width |
• 256-bits |
Memory Size |
• 512 MB |
| Memory Type |
• GDDR3 |
| Memory Speed |
• 1100 MHz (2.2 GHz DDR) |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 70.4 GB/s |
RAMDAC |
• 400 MHz |
Display Support |
• Two dual-linked HDCP-enabled DVI-I outputs |
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