GeForce 9 series

The GeForce 9 series (also known as the GeForce 9000 series) is the ninth generation of Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. The products are based on an updated Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCI Express 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).

GeForce 9100 series

Geforce 9100 G 65 nm G98 GPU PCI-E x16 64-bit bus 4 raster operations pipelines (ROP), 8 unified shaders 540 megahertz (MHz) core clock 256 MB DDR2, 400 MHz memory clock 1300 MHz shader clock 5.1 G texels/s fill rate 7.6 GB/s memory bandwidth Supports DirectX 10, SM 4.0 OpenGL 2.1 compliance Supports 1st generation PureVideo HD technology with partial VC1 decoding

GeForce 9300 series

Geforce 9300 GS On May 1, 2008, the GeForce 9300 GS was officially launched.

80 nm G86 GPU PCI-E x16 64-bit bus 8 ROP, 16 unified shaders 450 MHz core clock 512 MB DDR2, 400 MHz memory clock 900 MHz shader clock 3.6 Gtexels/s fill rate 6.4 GB/s memory bandwidth Supports DirectX 10, SM 4.0 OpenGL 2.1 compliance

GeForce 9400 series

GeForce 9400 GT On August 27, 2008, the GeForce 9400 GT was officially launched.

65 nm G96 GPU 16 stream processors 550 MHz core, with a 1350 MHz unified shader clock 4.4 Gtexels/s fillrate 256/512/1024 MB 800 MHz DDR2 or 256 MB 1600 MHz GDDR3,"Galaxy Technology 9400GT news page", August 27, 2008. (Accessed August 28, 2008.) both with a 128-bit memory bus 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with DDR2 800 MHz memory 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 and HybridPower technology. Minimum of 300 watt power supply

GeForce 9500 series

GeForce 9500 GT

On July 29, 2008, the GeForce 9500 GT was officially launched.

65 nm G96 GPU 32 stream processors (32 CUDA cores) 4 multi processors (each multi processor has 8 cores) 550 MHz core, with a 1400 MHz unified shader clock 8.8 Gtexels/s fillrate 256/512/1024 MB 1,600 MHz GDDR3 memory or 256 MB/512 MB 1,000 MHz GDDR2 memory, both with a 128-bit memory bus 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with GDDR3 800 MHz memory 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 Nvidia SLI-ready technology DVI support

GeForce 9500 GS The 9500 GS is an OEM card that is based on the 9500 GT but geared towards the mainstream audience.

65 nm G96 GPU 32 stream processors 8 ROP units 550 MHz core, with a 1375 MHz defined unified shader clock 8.8 Gtexels/s fillrate 128/512 MB 1000 MHz DDR2 memory with a 128-bit memory bus 16.0 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 Nvidia SLI-ready technology DVI support

GeForce 9600 series

GeForce 9600 GT

On February 21, 2008, the GeForce 9600 GT was officially launched. It was an upgrade of 8600 GTS.

65 nm G94 GPU 64 CUDA cores 16 raster operation (ROP) units, 32 texture address (TA) / texture filter (TF) units 20.8 Gtexels/s fill rate 650 MHz core clock, with a 1625 MHz unified shader clock 1008 MHz memory (2016 MHz datarate), 256-bit interface for 64.5 GB/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, and PCI-Express 2.0 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

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.

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. 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. At least one reviewer considered the revised version inferior in performance to the old version.

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.

GeForce 9800 series The GeForce 9800 series contains the GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTX+ and GT variants.

GeForce 9800 GX2 On March 18, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GX2 was officially launched.

The GeForce 9800 GX2 has the following specifications: Dual PCBs, dual GPU design about 197 W power consumption. Two 65nm process GPUs, with 256 total stream processors (128 per PCB). 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. An 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector Clocks (Core/Shader/Memory): 600 MHz/1500 MHz/2000 MHz 256-bit memory interface 128 GB/s memory bandwidth Release date: March 18, 2008 Launch price of $666.99

GeForce 9800 GTX On April 1, 2008, the GeForce 9800 GTX was officially launched.

Taken from an eVGA specification sheet:

128 CUDA cores Clocks (Core/Shader/Memory): 675 MHz/1688 MHz/1100 MHz 256-bit memory interface 512 MB of GDDR3 memory 70.4 GB/s memory bandwidth Texture Fill Rate of 43.2 (billion/s) 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 Launch Price of $349

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 that debuted on the 8800GT. The newer (55 nm) version supports HybridPower while the 65 nm version does not.

ASUSTeK have released a 9800GT with Tri-SLI support.

Taken from the Nvidia product detail page.

112 processor 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 8001333 1.8 3.6 Up to 512 from system memory 6.4/12.810.664/21.328 DDR2DDR3 64/128 10.0 3.3 rowspan=15 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 8001333 2.32 4.64 Up to 512 from system memory 6.4/12.810.664/21.328 DDR2DDR3 64/128 67.2 12 based on 8400 GS GeForce 9300 GE 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 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 8001600 2.2 4.4 256, 512, 1024 12.825.6 GDDR2GDDR3 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 10001600 4.4 8.8 256, 512, 1024 16.025.6 DDR2GDDR3 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 600625 15001625 1400/18001800 9.610 19.220 512, 1024 44.8/57.657.6 GDDR3 256 288312 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 140016001800 8.8 30.8 512, 1024 44.851.257.6 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) PureVideo 2 with VP2,BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine PureVideo 3 with VP3,BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine GeForce 9300 GE (G98) rowspan="7" rowspan="2" rowspan="2" GeForce 9300 GS (G98) GeForce 9400 GT rowspan="8" rowspan="8" GeForce 9500 GT GeForce 9600 GSO GeForce 9600 GT GeForce 9800 GT GeForce 9800 GTX rowspan="2" 3-way GeForce 9800 GTX+ GeForce 9800 GX2

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