Even as game buffs keenly awaiting the launch of the GX 260 and GX 280 chipsets in the country, NVIDIA gave hardcore game lovers a reason to cheer up by rolling out GeForce 9800 GTX+, the newest in the line of XFX graphics card in India.

Powered by 128 processor cores running at 1.83GHz, the 9800 GTX+ graphics card comes packed with all the features, which may be part of a excellent gaming product.
 
The newly launched graphics card also boasts HybridPower technology, which consumes less power by making use of the onboard graphics of the motherboard while showing less graphically strong applications.

But the PC will have to be equipped with HybridSLI capable motherboard including motherboards based on GeForce 8200 / 8300 chipsets, to use the technology.

The 9800 GTX+ makes use of NVIDIA CUDA technology that lets the CPUs to shift accurate processing tasks on the graphics card.

The card utilizes PhysX technology to offer up realistic facial movements and explosions.

Hard core games can achieve extreme gaming performance by connecting three 9800 GTX+ cards via the three-way NVIDIA SLI mode on XFX’s nForce 780i SLI or 790i SLI motherboards.

Other amazing features include NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology for superior HD movie picture quality, CUDA runtime for Windows Vista support and ESA enabled control panel for gamers to tweak their settings.

XFX 9800 GTX+ is available all over India through Rashi Peripherals at a price of Rs 16,000.