The GeForce 9 series is the ninth generation of Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008. The products are based on an updated Tesla microarchitecture, adding PCI Express 2.0 support, improved color and z-compression, and built on a 65 nm process, later using 55 nm process to reduce power consumption and die size.
GeForce 9800GX2
Gigabyte GeForce 9500 GT
BFG GeForce 9500 GT without heatsink
GeForce 9600 GT with cooler removed
Tesla (microarchitecture)
Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. It was named after the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. As Nvidia's first microarchitecture to implement unified shaders, it was used with GeForce 8 series, GeForce 9 series, GeForce 100 series, GeForce 200 series, and GeForce 300 series of GPUs, collectively manufactured in 90 nm, 80 nm, 65 nm, 55 nm, and 40 nm. It was also in the GeForce 405 and in the Quadro FX, Quadro x000, Quadro NVS series, and Nvidia Tesla computing modules.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 of the GeForce 200-line of graphics-cards, was the final major iteration featuring the Tesla microarchitecture (GT200-400-B3).
Photo of Nikola Tesla, eponym of architecture
GPU NVIDIA G80
Die shot of the GT200 GPU found inside NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 cards, based on the Tesla microarchitecture