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Graphics card makers introduce GeForce 9800 GTX series

Press release, April 2; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia

Graphics card makers including Micro-Star International (MSI), Albatron, Gigabyte Technology and Leadtek Research have launched graphics card based on Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GTX GPU.

The cards support Nvidia's 3-way SLI technology, boasting up to 2.8 times more power than any single GPU system, and HybridPower technology to reduce power usage by switching from the GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card to a motherboard IGP when running less graphically-intensive applications.

MSI N9800GTX graphics card specifications

Item

Detail

Graphics Engine

GeForce 9800GTX

Bus Standard

PCI Express 2.0 x16

Memory Type

GDDR3

Memory Amount

512MB

Memory Interface

256-bit

Core Clock Speed

675MHz

Shade Clock Speed

1688MHz

Memory Clock Speed

2200MHz

Memory Bandwidth(GB/sec)

70.4

Texture Fill Rate(billion/sec)

43.2

DVI Output

x2

D-SUB Output

No

TV-Output

x1(via S-Video to Composite)

HDMI-Output

via DVI to HDMI adaptor

Display Ouput(Max Resolution)

2560×1600

RAMDACs

400

HDTV Support

Yes

HDCP Support

Yes

HDMI Support

Yes

DirectX Version Support

10.0

OpenGL Version Support

2.1

SLI Support

Yes

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, April 2008

Albatron 9800GTX-512X graphics card specifications

Item

Detail

GPU

GeForce 9800GTX

Core clock

675MHz

Shader clock

1688MHz

Memory clock

1100MHz

Memory amount

512MB of GDDR3 memory

Memory I/O

256-bit

Frame buffer

512MB

Total board power

160W TDP

Interface

PCI Express 2.0

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, April 2008

Gigabyte GV-NX98X512H-B graphics card specifications

Item

Detail

Chipset

Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX

Memory

512MB

Memory Bus

256-bit

Memory Type

GDDR3

Card dimension

ATX

Bus Type

PCIe 2.0

Bus Speed

x16

D-SUB

Y (By Adapter)

TV-OUT

Yes

DVI Port

Y (DVI-I)

VIVO

No

Multi View

Yes

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, April 2008

Leadtek WinFast PX9800 GTX graphics card specifications

Item

Detail

Graphic Bus

PCI Express

GPU

Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX

GPU/Memory Clock

675/2200MHz

Shader Clock

1688 MHz

Memory Size

512MB GDDR3

Memory Interface

256-bit

RAMDACs

400MHz

Stream Processors

128

Output

Dual Dual-Link DVI, HDTV

Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, April 2008

MSI N9800GTX graphics card

MSI N9800GTX graphics card
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Albatron 9800GTX-512X graphics card

Albatron 9800GTX-512X graphics card
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Gigabyte GV-NX98X512H-B graphics card

Gigabyte GV-NX98X512H-B graphics card
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Leadtek WinFast PX9800 GTX graphics card

Leadtek WinFast PX9800 GTX graphics card
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