9800M GTX Technical Details

I've been searching a while for technical details regarding my 9800M GTX and have finally been able to come up with a decent report. Thought others might be interested as I was.

Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX (Clevo)
BIOS Version 62.92.49.00.A1
GPU Code Name G92M-750
PCI Device 10DE-0608 / 1558-0481 (Rev A2)
Transistors 754 million
Process Technology 65 nm
Bus Type PCI Express 1.0 x16 @ x16
Memory Size 1 GB
GPU Clock (Geometric Domain) 500 MHz
GPU Clock (Shader Domain) 1375 MHz
RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 16
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Texture Mapping Units 56U nits
Unified Shaders 112 (v4.0)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v10
Pixel Fillrate 3200 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 11200 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit
Real Clock 800 MHz
Effective Clock 800 MHz
Bandwidth 6400 MB/s

nVIDIA ForceWare Clocks
Level #1 GPU: 200 MHz, Shader: 400 MHz, Memory: 100 MHz
Level #2 GPU: 275 MHz, Shader: 550 MHz, Memory: 301 MHz
Level #3 GPU: 383 MHz, Shader: 767 MHz, Memory: 301 MHz
Level #4 GPU: 500 MHz, Shader: 1375 MHz, Memory: 799 MHz

Voltage levels .7-1.03v
Thermal Threshold 90C

OTB GPU Overclock Shaders only (nVidia System Tools)

 

Very interesting. Do you know if Sager sells the cards individually? I would love to upgrade my NP9262.

 

I believe they do. And if they don't, they eventually will.

 

It'd be nice to see two of those in SLI perform. That should be happening soon, right?

 

They should be. Within a couple months I'd assume. Just doing drivers for it.

 

Really nice specs for the 9800m GTX, it looks really promising, as much as the 8800m GTX once did, but since it is not that much of an improvement and rise of performance over a 8800m GTX / 9800m GT, it is still too expensive (1,100, compared to what 8800m GTX SLi costed, around 300 / 400 more dollars, and almost 3 times the cost of a 9800m GT SLi setup).

Though, it must be the most powerful Nvidia Graphics Card manufactured to date, that is for sure, for now, I guess I will keep my 8800m GTX's SLi warm and safe (even though I am about to send my laptop for repairs due to a graphics card(s) issue (actual smoke odor came out from the vents)), and upgrade once a GTX 260m or GTX 280m SLi Setup (if ever) comes out to the Clevo D901C / Sager NP9262.

 

Well once nVidia has moved their fabrication process to 55nm or even 45nm, I think we'll start seeing GTX 280m type performance. As it stands now, the chips are too big, too hot, and eat too much power. By that time, other newer technologies will be along that will help the mobile process along. I say two years till mobile platforms are running at where the current GTX 280 is now.

 

You are right, I hope that the NP9262 can still get upgrades by when that happens, who knows.

It is always nice to see graphics cards that are equivalent to desktop cards in performance, consuming only a minimal fraction of the power their desktop equivalents use, it is rewarding, seriously, don't you think?

 

Wish they had it at 512-bit bus...ah well

 

380 would have been cool, and left room for the 512 on the next refresh.

 

Anybody know any apps that will show GPU mem usage? Rivatuner won't show it in Vista. I'm curious if any games I play are using up that 1GB at all

 

I can't think of any programs for monitoring, but I know mass effect had settings to determine how much Vram is used.

 

Just found some more information running a subsystems diagnostic report on the gpu.

Voltage levels .7-1.03v
Thermal Threshold 90C

The allowable voltages of the 8800M GTX and 9800M GT are 1.05v, while the voltage here is 1.03, also the Threshold for the others is 95C vs the 90C for this one.

What this equates out to is less of an overclock and not being able to get the card quite as hot as before. Perhaps though the voltage can be taken above the 1.03v such as the XPS 1730 being able to extend beyond the 1.05v mark.