Geforce 9800 GTX
The Geforce 9800 GTX is a beast in the graphics card arena. It boasts a core clock speed of 675 MHz, memory clock speed of 1100 MHz, and a shader clock speed of 1688 MHz. The 9800 GTX also has 512MB of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit interface. It also contains 128 cores that are running at a record high of 1688 MHz. This is Nvidia’s most powerful GeForce 9800 graphics card to date. You can even put the Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX in a dual SLI configuration for up to as 2x boost in performance, and if that’s not enough you can triple it up with a 3-way SLI configuration to get up to a 2.8x boost in graphics card performance.

Over at HotHardware.com they put the Geforce 9800 GTX to the test with a GTX round-up featuring the BFG, EVGA, and Zogis versions of the 9800 GTX GPU, since they are all very similiar they were mainly comparing the GeForce 9800 GTX to its predecessors and it’s competitors as a whole. This statement sums up their testing:

“Performance Summary: Considering all we knew of the GeForce 9800 GTX going into this article, its performance was right in-line with our expectations. The GeForce 9800 GTX is marginally more powerful than the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and was faster than the GTS in every game we tested to some degree. The new GeForce 9800 GTX was also faster than the older GeForce 8800 GTX most of the time, but the battle was very close in UT3 and the 8800 GTX pulled ahead in ET: Quake Wars. And the dual-GPU powered Radeon HD 38070 X2 and GeForce 9800 GTX traded victories in our tests, but the X2 was the faster card more often than not. Traditional two card and 3-way GeForce 9800 GTX SLI configurations also showed good scaling in the games we used for testing, typically finishing at, or near the top of the charts.”

The Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX is the fastest single-GPU card, offers PureVideo HD, provides good power consumption along with hybrid power support, and a quiet cooler all for a competitive price.