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.

NVIDIA GeForce 9 Series
Codename(s)	G92a/b, G94a/b, G96a/b
Release date	2008
Entry-level GPU	9100, 9200, 9300 (IGP), 9400 (both integrated and discrete variants), 9500
Mid-Range GPU	9600
High-end GPU	9800
Direct3D and Shader version	D3D 10, Model 4

Contents

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• 1 New codename scheme
• 2 GeForce 9400 Series
  • 2.1 GeForce 9400 GT
• 3 GeForce 9500 Series
  • 3.1 GeForce 9500 GT
  • 3.2 GeForce 9500 GS
• 4 GeForce 9600 Series
  • 4.1 GeForce 9600 GT
  • 4.2 GeForce 9600 GSO
  • 4.3 GeForce 9600 GSO 512
• 5 GeForce 9800 Series
  • 5.1 GeForce 9800 GX2
  • 5.2 GeForce 9800 GTX
  • 5.3 GeForce 9800 GT
• 6 Technical summary
• 7 GeForce 9M Series
  • 7.1 9100M G^[32]
  • 7.2 9200M GS^[33]
  • 7.3 9300M G^[34]
  • 7.4 9300M GS^[35]
  • 7.5 9400M G^[36]
  • 7.6 9500M G^[37]
  • 7.7 9500M GS^[38]
  • 7.8 9600M GS^[39]
  • 7.9 9600M GT^[40]
  • 7.10 9650M GS ^[41]
  • 7.11 9650M GT ^[42]
  • 7.12 9700M GT [4]
  • 7.13 9700M GTS [5]
  • 7.14 9800M GS [6]
  • 7.15 9800M GTS [7]
  • 7.16 9800M GT [8]
  • 7.17 9800M GTX [9]
  • 7.18 Technical summary
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 External links

  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 G200^[3], it had previously been published as G100. It is worth noting that all of the GeForce 9 series is technically similar to the G92 GeForce 8 series (8800 GT/GTS 512), except for the use of slightly higher rated and clocked video memory. Also in the 9800 GTX+ and some 9800 GT, a manufacturing processing shrink to 55 nm was added. However the architecture of the G92 is identical, meaning clock for clock identical performance.