GeForce 9 series
Series of GPUs by Nvidia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with GeForce 900 series.
The GeForce 9 series (also known as the GeForce 9000 series) is the ninth generation of Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. The products are based on an updated Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCI Express 2.0 support, improved color and z-compression, and built on a 65 nm process, later using 55 nm process to reduce power consumption and die size (GeForce 8 G8x GPUs only supported PCIe 1.1 and were built on 90 nm process or 80 nm process).
Quick Facts Release date, Codename ...
Release date | February 21, 2008; 16 years ago (February 21, 2008) |
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Codename | G9x |
Architecture | Tesla |
Models | GeForce series
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Transistors | 210M 65 nm (G98)
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Cards | |
Entry-level |
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Mid-range |
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High-end | 9800 GT/GTX/GTX+ |
Enthusiast | 9800 GX2 |
API support | |
DirectX | Direct3D 10.0 Shader Model 4.0 |
OpenCL | OpenCL 1.1 |
OpenGL | OpenGL 3.3 |
History | |
Predecessor | GeForce 8 series |
Variant | GeForce 100 series |
Successor | GeForce 200 series |
Support status | |
Unsupported |
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