GeForce 9 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.
New codename scheme
It had previously been thought that NVIDIA had decided to drop the G and NV nomenclature for a D (for Desktop) nomenclature on their processors. Following the D is the generation number and the target market indicator. NVIDIA's official designations for target markets include Mainstream, Performance, and Enthusiast. For example, the D9E indicates a 9th generation Desktop GeForce video card for the Enthusiast market [1]. However, NVIDIA has actually forked their codenames into those of graphics processors, and those of graphics cards. The GPU cores have kept the prefix "G" and future versions will include the prefix "GT"; whereas the actual cards are now codenamed as D, generation number and target market. For example, the GeForce 8800 GT is designated D8P but contains a processor codenamed G92; the GeForce 9600 GT will most likely be designated D9M but it will contain the G94 core[2], whereas the 9800 will likely contain the G92 core. The next-generation core after the GeForce 9 Series is designated GT200[3], it had previously been published as G100. It is worth noting that some of the GeForce 9 series is technically the same as the late GeForce 8 series. Some examples are the GeForce 8800 GT and the GeForce 8800 GTX.
GeForce 9200/9400 Series
On 27 August 2008 the Geforce 9200GS/9400GT was officially launched.
GeForce 9200GS/9400GT
- 55nm G96/D9M GPU
- 16 Stream Processors.
- 550 MHz core, with a 1350 MHz unified shader clock.
- 4.4 billion texels/s fillrate.
- 256 MB/512 MB/1024 MB 800 MHz DDR2 or 256 MB 1600 MHz GDDR3[4] , both with a 128-bit memory bus
- 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with DDR2 800 MHz memory.
- Support DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1, and PCI-Express 2.0.
- Supports 2nd generation PureVideo technology and Hybrid Power technology. [5][6][7]
GeForce 9500 Series
On 29 July 2008 the Geforce 9500 GT was officially launched.
GeForce 9500 GT
- 55nm G96/D9M GPU
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 550 MHz core, with a 1400 MHz unified shader clock.
- 8.8 billion texels/s fillrate.
- 256 MB/512MB 1600 MHz GDDR3 memory or 256 MB 1000 MHz GDDR2 memory, both with a 128-bit memory bus.
- 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with GDDR3 800 MHz memory.
- Support DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1, and PCI-Express 2.0.
- Supports 3rd generation PureVideo 3 technology with VC1 decoding. [8][9]
GeForce 9600 Series
On 21 February, 2008 the Geforce 9600 GT was officially launched.
Geforce 9600 GT
- 65nm G94/D9M GPU.
- 64 Stream Processors.
- 16 Raster Operation(ROP) units, 32 Texture Address(TA)/Texture Filter(TF) units.
- 20.8 billion texels/s fillrate.
- 650 MHz core clock, with a 1625 MHz unified shader clock.
- 1800 MHz memory, with a 256-bit memory interface.
- 256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB of GDDR3 memory[10].
- 57.6 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with GDDR3 900 MHz memory.
- 505M transistor count
- DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1, and PCI-Express 2.0[11].
- Is compatible with HDCP, but the implementation will depend on the manufacturer.
- Supports CUDA and the Quantum Effects physics processing engine.
- Almost double the performance of the previous Nvidia mid-range card, the GeForce 8600GTS.
- Estimated by NVIDIA to cost between $169-$189 MSRP.
Source: [12]
Geforce 9600 GSO
The Geforce 9600 GSO is 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 obsoleted by the next generation. Just like the 8800 GS the 9600 GSO features 96 stream processors, a 550Mhz core clock with shaders clocked at 1,375Mhz, and 384MB memory clocked at 1,600Mhz on a 192-bit memory bus.
GeForce 9800 Series
The GeForce 9800 series is reported to have GX2 (dual GPU), GTX, GTS, GT, and GS variants.[15]
GeForce 9800 GX2
On 18 March, 2008 the GeForce 9800 GX2 was officially launched.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 is reported to have the following specifications: [16][17].
- Dual PCBs, dual GPU design
- 197 W power consumption [18].
- Two 65nm process GPUs, with 256 total Stream Processors (128 per PCB)[19].
- The 9800 GX2 is at least 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra.
- Supports Quad SLI.
- 1 GiB (512 MB per PCB) memory framebuffer.
- Supports DirectX 10, Shader Model 4, OpenGL 2.1, and PCI-Express 2.0.
- Outputs include two DVI ports, an HDMI output, and S/PDIF in connector on-board for routing audio through the HDMI cable [20].
- An 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector.
- Clocks (Core/Shader/Memory): 600 MHz/1500 MHz/2000 MHz [21]
- 256-bit memory interface[21]
- 128 GB/s memory bandwidth[21]
- Release date: March 18, 2008
- Launch price of $599 [22].
GeForce 9800 GTX
On 1 April, 2008 the GeForce 9800 GTX was officially launched.
Taken from an eVGA specification sheet[23].
- 128 Stream Processors.
- Clocks (Core/Shader/Memory): 675 MHz/1688 MHz/2200 MHz
- 256-bit memory interface.
- 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.
- 70.4 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 43.2
- DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1, and PCI-Express 2.0.
- Release date was 2008-04-01. [24].
- Launch Price of $349. [25].
In July 2008 nVidia released the 55nm refresh of the 9800 GTX: the 9800 GTX+. It has faster core (738 MHz) and shader (1836 Mhz) clocks.
Technical Specifications
| 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) | Megabytes | Effective (Real) Memory Clock (MHz) | |||||||||||
| GeForce 9400 GT | 27 August 2008 | G96 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65[26], 55 | 550 | ? | 4.4 | ? | ? | 16 | 1350 | 12.8 | DDR2 | 128 | 256, 512, 1024 | 800 (400) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 65 |
| GDDR3 [27] | 1000 (800) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| GeForce 9500 GT | 29 July 2008 | G96 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65[26], 55 | 550 | ? | 8.8 | ? | ? | 32 | 1400 | 25.6 | DDR2 | 128 | 256, 512 | 1000 (500) | 32 | 8 | 50 | 314 | 134 |
| GDDR3 | 1600 (800) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| GeForce 9600 GSO | 15 January 2008 | G92-150 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65 | 550 | 6.6 | 26.4 | 13.2 | 1.65 | 96 | 1375 | 38.4 | GDDR3 | 192 | 384 | 1600 (800) | 48 | 12 | 105 | 754 | 396.0 |
| 650 | 7.8 | 31.2 | 15.6 | 1625 | 45.6 | 768 | 1900 (950) | 468.0 | |||||||||||||
| GeForce 9600 GT | 21 February 2008 | G94 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65, 55[28] | 650 | 10.4 | 20.8 | 10.4 | ? | 64 | 1625 | 57.6 | DDR2 | 256 | 256, 512, 1024 | 1800 (900) | 32 | 16 | 98 | 505 | 312 |
| GDDR3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| GeForce 9800 GT | 29 July 2008 | G92b | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 55 | 600 | 9.6 | 33.6 | 16.8 | ? | 112 | 1500 | 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 512 | 1800 (900) | 56 | 16 | ~105 | 754 | 504 |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 1 April 2008 | G92 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65 | 675 | 10.8 | 43.2 | 21.6 | ? | 128 | 1688 | 70.4 | GDDR3 | 256 | 512 | 2200 (1100) | 64 | 16 | 156 | 754 | 648 |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 29 July 2008 | G92b | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 55 | 738 | 11.8 | 47.4 | 23.7 | ? | 128 | 1836 | 70.4 | GDDR3 | 256 | 512 | 2200 (1100) | 64 | 16 | 141 | 754 | 705 |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 18 March 2008 | G92 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | 65 | 600 | 2x 9.6 | 2x 38.4 | 2x 19.2 | ? | 2x 128 | 1500 | 2x 64 | GDDR3 | 2x 256 | 2x 512 | 2000 (1000) | 2x 56 | 2x 16 | 197 | 2x 754 | 2x 576 |
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- ^ "Next gen Nvidia is GT200", "Fudzilla", 9 January, 2008. (Accessed 13 February, 2008.)
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- ^ "More GeForce 9500 GT details emerge", "Fudzilla", 14 January, 2008. (Accessed 13 February, 2008.)
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- ^ "GeForce 9800 GX2 Exclusive Pics & Specs", "Hard OCP", 3 January, 2008. (Accessed 4 January, 2008.)
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- ^ a b nVidia to launch 55nm G96 in 4Q08.
- ^ Galaxy 9400 GT with GDDR3.
- ^ nVidia shrinks 9600GT to 55nm without changing the name.
The G94 GPU is now made with 55nm process. The 65nm G94 is marked as "G94-300-A1", while 55nm G94 is marked "G94-300-B1".
GeForce 9M Series
On February 21, 2008, the GeForce 9M series was released exclusively on Asus notebooks[citation needed]. The Asus M51Sn, V1Sn, M50Sv, and G1Sn-X1 models received the 9500M GS and the U3Sg model received the 9300M G[citation needed] (they are using DDR2 memory at 400 MHz, not the standard GDDR3 at 700 MHz). On March 12, 2008, Acer announced the Aspire 8920G, which includes the 9500M GS and the new 9650M GS[citation needed]. Recently, Acer also announced the Aspire 5930G, which incorporates the next generation Intel Chipset at 1066 MHz FSB and a 9600M GT. Also, HP offers the Geforce 9M Series on their newer Pavilion laptops (the dvXt series, x being the last # of the screen size.)
All graphical processing units in the GeForce 9M series feature:
- Increased performance for similar power draw compared to GeForce 8M series for low-end and midrange notebooks,
- DirectX 10.0 and OpenGL 2 compatibility,
- 16X antialiasing, and
- Full HD DVD / Blu-ray hardware decoding.
9100M G[1]
- 8 Stream Processors.
- ? MHz core clock.
- ? MHz shader clock.
- ? MHz memory clock.
- Up to ? MB memory.
- ?-bit memory interface.
- ? GB/s memory bandwidth.
- ? billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9200M GS[2]
- 8 Stream Processors.
- ? MHz core clock.
- ? MHz shader clock.
- ? MHz memory clock.
- Up to ? MB memory.
- ?-bit memory interface.
- ? GB/s memory bandwidth.
- ? billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9300M G[3]
- 16 Stream Processors.
- 400 MHz core clock.
- 800 MHz shader clock.
- 600 MHz memory clock.
- Up to 256 MB memory.
- 64-bit memory interface.
- 9.6 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 3.2 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9300M GS[4]
- 8 Stream Processors.
- ? MHz core clock.
- ? MHz shader clock.
- ? MHz memory clock.
- Up to ? MB memory.
- ?-bit memory interface.
- ? GB/s memory bandwidth.
- ? billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9500M G[5]
- 16 Stream Processors.
- ? MHz core clock.
- ? MHz shader clock.
- ? MHz memory clock.
- Up to ? MB memory.
- ?-bit memory interface.
- ? GB/s memory bandwidth.
- ? billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9500M GS[6]
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 479 MHz core clock.
- 950 MHz shader clock.
- 700 MHz memory clock.
- Up to 512 MB memory.
- 128-bit memory interface.
- 22.4 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 7.6 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9600M GS[7]
- 064A/8 core
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 430 MHz core clock.
- 1075 MHz shader clock.
- 800 (effective) MHz memory clock.
- Up to 1024 MB memory.
- 128-bit memory interface.
- 12.6 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 6.8 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 103 GigaFLOPS.
9600M GT[8]
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 500 MHz core clock.
- 1250 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- Up to 1024 MB memory.
- 128-bit memory interface.
- 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- ? billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9650M GS [9]
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 625 MHz core clock.
- 1250 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- Up to 512 MB memory.
- 128 bit memory interface.
- 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 10 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
9700M GT [4]
- G96 core.
- 32 Stream Processors.
- 625 MHz core clock.
- 1550 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- 128 bit memory interface.
- 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 10.0 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 148.8 GigaFLOPS.
9700M GTS [5]
- G94 core.
- 48 Stream Processors.
- 530 MHz core clock.
- 1325 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- 256 bit memory interface.
- 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 12.7 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 190.8 GigaFLOPS.
9800M GTS [6]
- G94 core.
- 64 Stream Processors.
- 600 MHz core clock.
- 1500 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- 256 bit memory interface.
- 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 19.2 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 288 GigaFLOPS.
9800M GT [7]
- G92 core.
- 96 Stream Processors.
- 500 MHz core clock.
- 1250 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- 256 bit memory interface.
- 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 24.0 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 360 GigaFLOPS.
9800M GTX [8]
- G92 core.
- 112 Stream Processors.
- 500 MHz core clock.
- 1250 MHz shader clock.
- 800 MHz memory clock.
- 256 bit memory interface.
- 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth.
- 28.0 billion texels/s texture fill rate.
- 420 GigaFLOPS.
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) | Megabytes | Effective DDR Clock (MHz) | |||||||||||
| GeForce 9100M G | G98 | 65 | ? | ? | ? | 8 | 1080 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 26 | |||||||||
| GeForce 9200 GS | G98 | 65 | 530 | ? | ? | ? | 8 | 1290 | 1400 (700) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 31 | |||||||
| GeForce 9300M G | G98 | 65 | 400 | ? | 3.2 | ? | ? | 16 | 800 | 9.6 | 64 | 256 | 1200 (600) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 38 | |||
| GeForce 9300M GS | G98 | 65 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 8 | 1400 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 34 | |||
| GeForce 9500M G | 65 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 16 | 1250 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 60 | ||||
| GeForce 9500M GS | 65 | 479 | ? | 7.6 | ? | ? | 32 | 950 | 22.4 | 128 | 512 | 1400 (700) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| GeForce 9600M GS | G96 | 65 | 430 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 32 | 1075 | ? | 128 | ? | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | 314 | 103 | |||
| GeForce 9600M GT | G96 | 65 | 500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 32 | 1250 | ? | 128 | ? | 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 | 128 | ? | 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 | ? | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 288 | ||||
| GeForce 9800M GT | G94 | 500 | ? | 24 | ? | ? | 96 | 1250 | 51.2 | 256 | ? | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 360 | ||||
| GeForce 9800M GTX | G92 | 500 | ? | 28.0 | ? | ? | 112 | 1250 | 51.2 | 256 | ? | 1600 (800) | ? | ? | ? | ? | 420 | ||||
Future developments
- The series is being succeeded by GeForce 200 Series.
See also
References
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9300M", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 15 February, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9500M", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 15 February, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT", "NVIDIA". (Accessed 23 July, 2008.)
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