Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX Now Available

By Geoff Duncan
April 01, 2008

Nvidia has launched its GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card, bringing blistering performance to gaming rigs at a surprisingly affordable price.

Graphics developer Nvidia has officially launched its GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card, bringing both full-bore graphics capabilities and power management to serious gamers.

The GeForce 9800 GTX features 128 cores with a shader clock running 1,688 MHz, a 256-bit memory interface, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. The cards support Microsoft DirectX 10, have a max memory bandwidth of 70.4 GB/s, and incorporate Nvidia's PureVideo HD engine for playback of high-definition video content. Serious games, of course, will want to double up on GPUS: the 9800 GTX supports Nvidia's SLI capabilities for as much as doubling graphics performance when combined with a second 9800 GTX on systems with SLI-ready motherboards—and truly extreme players can wrap together three 9800 GTX cards for up to 2.8 times faster performance.

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