With two on-board GPUs, a GeForce® 9800 GX2-based graphics solution is bar-none the fastest graphics card available, and when paired with a 7 Series NVIDIA nForce® motherboard, creates the latest in a line of powerful NVIDIA gaming platforms. Be blown away by scorching frame rates, true-to-life extreme HD gaming, and picture-perfect Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.
Unreal Tournament 3 image captured on NVIDIA GPU. Provided by Epic.
Lightning speed graphics performanceThe dual-GPU engine has 256 screaming fast stream processors and a 1GB framebuffer, allowing it to perform 30 to 50% faster across games than the previous performance leading GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU.
Picture-Perfect HDExtreme HD game play, unsurpassed movie picture quality, and elegant design are at your fingertips with the GeForce 9800 GX2-based graphics card. Now you can be right in the middle of the action – whether you’re fragging the enemy or watching an HD movie, your experience will be ultra-realistic.
Features to up the anteCombine a pair of these multi GPU graphics cards with an nForce® 790i motherboard for Quad NVIDIA SLI® technology and get the world’s fastest gaming PC. Plus, an ESA-enabled control panel provides a state-of-the-art interface and HybridPower™ technology gives you optimal power savings.
PCI Express 2.0 SupportDesigned for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology1The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color StretchProvides post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies on a scene-by-scene basis for spectacular picture clarity.
HDMI OutputIntegrated HDMI™ connector enables sending both high-definition video and audio signals to an HDTV via a single cable.
NVIDIA HybridPower™ Technology2Lets you switch from the GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card to the motherboard GeForce GPU when running non graphically-intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.
Quad NVIDIA SLI® Technology3Industry leading Quad NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 4-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering), for the world’s fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.
Enthusiast System ArchitectureThe new ESA-enabled NVIDIA control panel provides a state-of-the-art interface for performance tuning and monitoring of your GeForce 9800 GX2-based graphics card on NVIDIA nForce 790i platforms.
1 Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product.2 Requires NVIDIA HybridPower™- enabled motherboard.3 NVIDIA SLI certified versions of GeForce PCI Express GPUs only. A GeForce 9800 GX2 must be paired with another GeForce 9800 GX2, regardless of graphics card manufacturer.
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