Introduction
With its support for 3-way SLI, NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GTX is obviously tailor made to fit into the shoes of the previous champ, the GeForce 8800 GTX. Of course, as far as benchmark performance is concerned, the dual GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 remains NVIDIA's top desktop graphics card while ATI's Radeon HD 3870 X2 too has a competitive price/performance ratio. In our testing, the GeForce 9800 GTX was not exactly convincing when it came to fending off its single GPU competitors. In fact, its predecessor, the GeForce 8800 GTX had its moments, especially in games which require a greater memory bandwidth. This resulted in the rather mediocre rating in our previous review.
It didn't take MSI long to issue an overclocked version of the GeForce 9800 GTX.
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Today, we have a slightly overclocked GeForce 9800 GTX from MSI, with both higher core and stream processor clocks. Can it change our impression of the insipid GeForce 9800 GTX? Read all about it after the jump and the technical specifications.
MSI N9800GTX-T2D512-OC Technical Specifications
| Graphics
Engine |
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
GPU (G92)
- 754 million transistors
- GPU
clock = 700MHz
- 128 Stream Processors at 1750MHz
- NVIDIA Unified Architecture
- GigaThread technology
- Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10
- Geometry shaders
- Geometry instancing
- Streamed output
- Shader Model 4.0
- Full 128-bit floating point precision through the
entire rendering pipeline
- NVIDIA Lumenex Technology
- 16x full screen anti-aliasing
- Transparent multisampling and transparent
supersampling
- 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
- 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR)
lighting
with anti-aliasing
- 32-bit per component floating point texture
filtering
and blending
- Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color,
texture, and z-data
- Support for normal map compression
- Z-cull
- Early-Z
- NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
- Advanced shader processors architected for physics
computation
- Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics
processor
- NVIDIA SLI Technology
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD
Technology
- Dedicated on-chip video processor (VP2)
- High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9
decode
acceleration
- Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
- HDCP capable
- Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
- Noise Reduction
- Edge Enhancement
- Bad Edit Correction
- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down
correction)
- High-quality scaling
- Video color correction
- Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
- Advanced Display Functionality
- Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel
display
resolutions up to 2560x1600
- Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display
resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
- Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output
(Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
- NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability
- 10-bit display processing
- Built for Windows Vista
- Full DirectX 10 support
- Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows
Vista
Aero 3D user interface
- VMR-based video architecture
- Designed for PCI
Express 2.0
- Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
- Advanced thermal
monitoring and thermal management
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| Graphics
Memory |
- 256-bit memory
interface
- 512MB Graphics DDR3
SDRAM
- Default clock rate of 1100MHz (effective speed of
2200MHz
DDR)
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| Display
Capabilities |
- Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
that support resolutions of
2048x1536@85Hz
- Dual-link DVI
capability to drive displays of up to
2560x1600
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| Connectors |
- 1 x mini-DIN connector
(for Video-out)
- 2 x DVI-I connector
(HDCP Ready)
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| Drivers
& Software |
- Driver support for
Microsoft Windows Vista/9x/ME/2000/XP/XP
MCE/XP Pro x64, Linux and Macintosh OS (including OS X)
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| Other
Information |
- PCI Express x16 2.0 compliant
- Two dedicated 6-pin PCIe
Molex power connectors required (not
shared or split)
- Power supply rated for
450W or higher recommended by
NVIDIA
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