PNY launch the GeForce™ 9800GT Graphics card: Offering Hardcore Gamers Speed, Price and Performance

Mérignac, France, 30th July 2008 – PNY Technologies, today announced availability of the GeForce™ 9800 GT 512MB graphics card. Featuring an extremely fast 112 processor cores each individually clocked at a blazing fast 1.5GHz and an impressive 256-bit frame buffer interface running at 900MHz. The PNY GeForce™ 9800GT delivers a level of price/performance that hardcore gamers demand at an affordable price point.

“The graphics processing power offered by the PNY GeForce™ 9800GT allows for richer and more immersive game environments by enabling faster frame rates at higher resolutions with more image quality options enabled.” said Jonathan Filleau, Marketing Manager for PNY Technologies consumer graphics cards and memory. He continued “Many of the most highly anticipated and newly released game titles of 2008 are optimised for the PNY GeForce™ 9800GT. Optimised features include NVIDIA SLI™, Dynamic Cloth, Fluids, Dramatic Lighting, Physical Weather effects, Live Debris and next generation Volumetric Effects.”

Featuring the second generation NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology engine, the PNY GeForce™ 9800GT graphics card delivers unsurpassed Blu-ray movie picture quality, offering several industry-leading features including :

- Hardware acceleration of high definition movies and dual-stream picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray movie experience.

- Dynamic contrast enhancement and colour stretch video processing optimised on a scene-by-scene basis for spectacular picture clarity.

The PNY GeForce™ 9800GT graphics card is available from July 30th 2008, comes with a 3-year replacement warranty. For more information, and technical product support please visit www.pny.eu

Technical Specifications

* Memory Capacity: 512 MB GDDR3
* Memory Interface : 256-bit
* Two dual dual-link DVI and one HDTV-Out output
* Core clock 600 Mhz, Memory clock 1800Mhz, Shader clock 1500Mhz
* HDCP
* PCI-Express 2.0
* Stream processors: 112
* Core Clock: 600 MHZ
* Shader Clock: 1500MHZ
* Memory Clock: 1800MHZ
* Memory Bandwidth: 57,6GB/sec
* Texture Fill Rate: 33,6 billion/sec

Contents

* Games - Company of Heroes : Opposite Front & Frontlines : Fuel of War
* Cables and accessories adapter DVI / VGA, cable HDTV.
* Driver
* Installation guide

About PNY Technologies:

Established in 1985 in New Jersey (USA) and 1994 in Europe, PNY Technologies delivers a full range of high quality products for everything in and around the computer. The company is a worldwide market leader for flash memory, USB Flash drives and high-end memory upgrade modules. PNY also offers a full line of consumer graphics as Authorized NVIDIA Board Partner and a full exclusive NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY professional graphics. In tailoring its product lines, the company has built substantial brand awareness and established strong relations with retail and distribution channels. Its product lines account for a majority share of retail sales in U.S and Europe. Thanks to its partnerships with major OEMs, PNY Technologies bring constant improvements in all the latest technologies, guaranteeing quality and service.

Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J for the USA and in France for Europe, PNY maintains manufacturing facilities and/or sales offices in North America (Santa Clara, Calif. and Parsippany, N.J) ; Europe (France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Nordic, Spain, Benelux), Middle-East and Asia/Pacific.

The Company has enjoyed continued growth and success since its inception, expanding its product and service offerings into new channels, and has distinguished itself through a unique ability to deliver superior products and added value services to all of its customers.

For more information, visit PNY Technologies Web site at: www.pny.eu