The support of 3-way SLI remained for long time the main future of reference NVIDIA cards. Producers rarely realized this functionality in original products, which do not use reference design. However, galaxy company took this step .
System with the multi graphic system 3-way SLI with three 3d- card galaxy 9800GTX demonstrated the result Of p16594 in 3DMark vantage test . The main feature of new 9800GTX is the cooler construction, which resembles to the cooler of galaxy 8800GT.

The radiator covers practically the entire area of printed-circuit board. The 9800GTX galaxy cards are equipped with two DVI and one HDMI. In the configuration of system entered the processor e8400, overclocked to 4,72 GHz. The frequencies of 9800GTX were 740/1836/1000 MHz (core/shader/memory).

In other words, in comparison with the reference values the core frequency was increased by 65 Hz, the shader frequency by 148 MHz, and the memory frequency , on the contrary was reduced by 100 MHz.