A Closer Look

The NVIDIA cooler uses a combination of copper and aluminum to keep the card cool. As you can see all the major components like GPU, memory and voltage regulators are cooled by it.


All GeForce 9800 GTX cards support SLI with up to three GPUs for increased performance.


I'm not sure why dual PCI-Express power connectors are needed. The 8800 GT which has similar specs works fine with only one. Anyway, Leadtek includes two adapter cables for these power connectors so you can be up and running in no time, no matter which PSU you have.


The GDDR3 chips are made by Samsung and have the model number K4J52534QE-BJ08. The chips are rated at 0.8 ns (= 1200 MHz), one of the fastest speed bins available on the GDDR3 market today.


NVIDIA's G92 graphics processor is produced at TSMC using a 65nm process. A successor G92b will be released soon which is made in 55nm, but has no other architectural improvements.