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Asus officially launches 9800GT Matrix

by on05 September 2008

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Asus ROG EN9800GT MATRIX/HTDI/512M

Asus has officially launched its new Republic of Gamers branded Matrix graphics card, the ROG EN9800GT Matrix. Following the success of the previously released EN9600GT Matrix card, Asus has decided to launch yet another card that will be a part of that series. Based on Nvidia's 9800GT GPU this card should be the best of the bunch as it comes with many features that will enable users to have complete hardware and software graphics card control.

The card works at 612MHz for the core and comes with 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz (1.8GHz). The new 9800GT Matrix card has 112 Stream processors and the Shader clock ended up clocked at 1,500MHz. The design is unique to Asus as this card features a black PCB, and an interesting black dual slot cooler that packs quite some cooling power as Asus claims rather impressive overclocking results. According to Asus, due to the voltage boost feature this card is capable of reaching 750MHz for the core, 1,753MHz for shaders and 2,000MHz for the memory.

This card comes with bunch of features such as accurate adjustments of the GPU and memory voltages, complete monitoring of the GPU/memory/power IC/ambient temperatures, monitoring of the GPU/memory/board power consumption, automatic control of fan speeds according to GPU load, some power savings features and customizable functions that should add a new level of control for gamers.

It is not clear if the card uses the old G92 or the new 55nm G92b GPU as we can't find the Hybrid Power support listed so we must assume that this is an old 65nm G92 GPU. On the other hand, the features and an overclocking potential is impressive so Hybrid Power support can be overlooked.

The card supports DirectX 10, Nvidia SLI and comes with DVI and HDMI connectors. As it was always the case with Asus, the availability date and the price remain a mystery.

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