GeForce 9 series

GeForce 9 series
Release date 2008
Codename G92a/b, G94a/b, G96a/b, G98
Models

GeForce Series

  • GeForce GE Series
  • GeForce GS Series
  • GeForce GSO Series
  • GeForce GT Series
  • GeForce GTX Series
  • GeForce GTX+ Series
  • GeForce GX2 Series
Fabrication process and transistors

210M 65 nm (G98)

  • 314M 65 nm (G96)
  • 505M 65 nm (G94)
  • 754M 65 nm (G92)
  • 754M 55 nm (G92B)
Cards
Entry-level 9100, 9200, 9300GS/GT, 9300GE, 9400GS/GT, 9500GS/GT
Mid-range 9600
High-end 9800 GT
Enthusiast 9800 GTX/GTX+/GX2
Rendering support
Direct3D Direct3D 10.0
Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL OpenGL 3.3
History
Predecessor GeForce 8 series
Variant GeForce 100 series
Successor GeForce 200 series

The GeForce 9 series is the ninth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce series of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. Products are based on a slightly repolished Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCIe 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 9300 Series

Geforce 9100 G

Geforce 9300 GS

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

GeForce 9400 Series

GeForce 9400 GT

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

GeForce 9500 Series

GeForce 9500 GT

Gigabyte GeForce 9500 GT
BFG GeForce 9500 GT without heatsink

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

GeForce 9500 GS

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

GeForce 9600 series

GeForce 9600 GT

GeForce 9600 GT with cooler removed

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

GeForce 9600 GS

GeForce 9600GS from an HP computer; notice the SLI connector. Unlike the 9600GT, it doesn't require an external PCI-Express power supply.

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 o

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.[9]

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.[10] 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. The revised version is considered 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.[11]

GeForce 9800 Series

The GeForce 9800 series contains the GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTX+ and GT variants.[12]

GeForce 9800 GX2

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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

The GeForce 9800 GX2 has the following specifications:.[13][14]

GeForce 9800 GTX

On April 1, 2008 the GeForce 9800 GTX was officially launched. It was basically an 8800 GTS 512MB with two SLI connectors, higher clock speeds, and support for Nvidia Hybrid Power, a technology that allows the discrete GPU to shut off during non resource intensive applications, and instead use the integrated GPU. With these extra features though, a high price came too.

Taken from an eVGA specification sheet:[20]

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 te debuted on the 8800GT.[23] The newer (55 nm) version supports HybridPower while the 65 nm version does not.

ASUSTeK have released a 9800GT with Tri-SLI support.[24]

Taken from the Nvidia product detail page.[25]

Technical Summary of Desktop G9x GPUs

Model Year Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Config core1 Clock rate Fillrate Memory API support (version) Processing Power GFLOPs TDP (watts) Comments
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL
GeForce 9300 mGPU October 2008 MCP7A-S 65 282 162 PCIe 2.0 x16 16:8:4 450 1200 800
1333
1.8 3.6 Up to 512 from system memory 6.4/12.8
10.664/21.328
DDR2
DDR3
64/128 10.0 3.3 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 800
1333
2.32 4.64 Up to 512 from system memory 6.4/12.8
10.664/21.328
DDR2
DDR3
64/128 10.0 3.3 67.2 12 based on 8400 GS
GeForce 9300 GE[26] June 2008 G98 65 ? 86 PCIe 2.0 x16 8:8:4 540 1300 500 2.16 4.3 256 8 DDR2 64 10.0 3.3 31.2 25
GeForce 9300 GS[26] June 2008 G98 65 ? 86 PCIe 2.0 x16 8:8:4 567 1400 500 2.268 4.5 512 8 DDR2 64 10.0 3.3 33.6 ??
GeForce 9400 GT August 27, 2008 G96a/b 65/55 314 144 PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI 16:8:4 550 1400 800
1600
2.2 4.4 256, 512, 1024 12.8
25.6
GDDR2
GDDR3
128 10.0 3.3 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 1000
1600
4.4 8.8 256, 512, 1024 16.0
25.6
DDR2
GDDR3
128 10.0 3.3 134.4 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 10.0 3.3 396 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 10.0 3.3 234 90
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 2009 G94b 55 505 196? PCIe 2.0 x16 64:32:16 600
625
1500
1625
1400/1800
1800
9.6
10
19.2
20
512, 1024 44.8/57.6
57.6
GDDR3 256 10.0 3.3 288
312
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 10.0 3.3 312 95
GeForce 9750 GTXXL 2009 G92b 55 754 260 PCIe 2.0 x16 112:56:16 550 1375 1400
1600
1800
8.8 30.8 512, 1024 44.8
51.2
57.6
GDDR3 256 10.0 3.3 462 75 Core Voltage 1.0V
GeForce 9800 GT July 2008 G92a/b 65/55 754 324/260 PCIe 2.0 x16 112:56:16 600 1500 1800 9.6 33.6 512, 1024 57.6 GDDR3 256 10.0 3.3 504 125/105 Some 65 nm cards are rebranded 8800 GT cards.
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 10.0 3.3 648 140
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 10.0 3.3 705 141
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 10.0 3.3 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 Processing Power GFLOPs TDP (watts) Comments

Features

Model Features
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Coverage Sample
AA
Angle Independent
AF
128 bit OpenEXR PureVideo 2 with VP2

Engine: (BSP and 128 AES)

GeForce 9400 GT Yes Yes
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9800 GTX Yes
3-way (link 3 GTXs)
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GX2 Yes
Quad (link 2 GX2s)

GeForce 9M Series

All graphical processing units in the GeForce 9M series feature:

9100M G[27]

9200M GS[28]

9300M G[29]

9300M GS[30]

9400M G[31]

9500M G[32]

9500M GS[33]

9600M GS[34]

9600M GT[35]

9650M GT [36]

9700M GT

9700M GTS

9800M GS

9800M GTS

9800M GT

9800M GTX

Technical summary

Model Release Date Codename Interface Fabrication process (nm) Core clock max (MHz) Peak fillrate Shaders Memory Texture Units Raster Operators Power Consumption (Watts) Transistor Count (Millions) Theoretical Shader Processing Rate (Gigaflops)
Billion pixel/s Billion bilinear texel/s Billion bilinear FP16 texel/s Billion FP32 pixel/s Stream Processors Clock (MHz) Bandwidth max (GB/s) DRAM type Bus width (bit) Size (MB) Effective DDR Clock (MHz)
GeForce 9100M G ? MCP77MH MCP79MH PCI 65 450 ? ? ? ? 8 1080 21GB/s DDR2 from RAM depend RAM configuration depend RAM configuration depend RAM configuration ? 4 ? ? 26
GeForce 9200M GS G98 65 530 ? ? ? 8 1300 GDDR2 GDDR3 256 ? ? ? ? 31
GeForce 9300M G G98 65 400 ? 3.2 ? ? 16 800 9.6 64 256 1200 (600) ? ? ? ? 38
GeForce 9300M GS G98 65 ? ? ? ? ? 16 1400 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 64 256 1400 (700) ? ? ? ? 34
GeForce 9400M G MCP79MX 65 450 ? ? ? ? 16 1100 ? 128 ? ? 12 282 54
GeForce 9500M G 65 ? ? ? ? ? 16 1250 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 128 256, 512, 1024 1600 (800) ? ? ? ? 60
GeForce 9500M GS G84 65 479 ? 7.6 ? ? 32 950 22.4 128 512 1400 (700) ? 8 ? 289 ?
GeForce 9600M GS G96 65 430 ? ? ? ? 32 1075 25.3 GDDR2 GDDR3 128 1024 1600 (800) ? ? ? 314 103
GeForce 9600M GT G96 65 500 ? ? ? ? 32 1250 ? GDDR2 GDDR3 128 256, 512, 1024 1600 (800) ? ? 23 314 120
GeForce 9650M GS 65 625 ? 10 ? ? 32 1250 25.6 128 512 1600 (800) ? ? 29 289 120
GeForce 9700M GT G96 625 ? 10 ? ? 32 1550 25.6 GDDR3 128 512 1600 (800) ? ? ? ? 148.8
GeForce 9700M GTS G94 530 ? 12.7 ? ? 48 1325 51.2 256 ? 1600 (800) ? ? ? ? 190.8
GeForce 9800M GTS G94 600 ? 19.2 ? ? 64 1500 51.2 256 512 1600 (800) ? ? ? ? 288
GeForce 9800M GT G94 500 ? 24 ? ? 96 1250 51.2 256 512 1600 (800) ? ? ? ? 360
GeForce 9800M GTX G92 500 ? 28.0 ? ? 112 1375 51.2 256 512 1600 (800) ? 75 ? ? 420

Discontinued support

NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce 9 series on April 1 2016.[37]

See also

References

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  2. "Galaxy Technology 9400GT news page", August 27, 2008. (Accessed August 28, 2008.)
  3. "Firing Squad", August 26, 2008. (Accessed August 26, 2008.)
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  5. "TechARP forums", August 27, 2008.
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  37. EOL driver support for legacy products

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