NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB First Benchmarks

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Expreview reports what we should expect from NVIDIA's GeForce 9 series first born in terms of performance. The card's clocks are 650/1625/1800MHz(core/shader/mem), using PCB design P545, GPU codename is "G94-300", made by TSMC's 65nm process technology. The testbed: Intel Core 2 QX9650@3GHz, ASUS Maximus Formula ROG X38 DDR2, Geil 2x1GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-10-1T, Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1 Beta V.668 using modded ForceWare 169.25WHQL drivers.



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[vega22]

impressive scores for crippled hardware.

 

[sam0t]

Step in the right direction, Nvidias low/mid range has been missing for quite some time. Lets cross our fingers that the card delivers in actual games too.

 

[tvdang7]

price??

 

[a111087]

good perf. for midrange graphics

 

[btarunr]

Good performance, I hope they price it around $159~$189, nothing more.

 

[JC316]

Man, this is getting insulting. Pretty soon my "top end" 2900 will be considered mid range. Nice for a midrange card though.

 

[Xolair]

Nice scores indeed, about same/a bit less than for a ATI HD3850 it seems. Then again, 3DMark06 doesn't tell the absolute truth so we'll see...

 

[v-zero]

4 ROPs? Not nice...

 

[WarEagleAU]

yeah not nice for 4 rops, but damn, it does decent, especially compared to the 8800GT. Im thinking of either an HD3870, or I might get 2 HD3850s for Xfire.

 

[asb2106]

yeah not nice for 4 rops, but damn, it does decent, especially compared to the 8800GT. Im thinking of either an HD3870, or I might get 2 HD3850s for Xfire.

I thought the same thing, and I know nobody likes hearing this, but I would purcahse the 3870 with the intention of adding a second. By getting two 3850s you have capped out there. I am really happy with my 3870, especially now watercooled, temps are great and performance is specatular for the price. I guarantee youd be happy. When the games start to emerge this year I will add a second 3870 and be more happy!

 

[erocker]

Man, this is getting insulting. Pretty soon my "top end" 2900 will be considered mid range. Nice for a midrange card though.

The 2900 sells for mid-range prices now.

 

[yogurt_21]

4 ROPs? Not nice...

could just be not detecting it right as the shaders aren't detected at all. I'd imagine the card actually has 12 rop's.

 

[v-zero]

could just be not detecting it right as the shaders aren't detected at all. I'd imagine the card actually has 12 rop's.

Hope so, but I think it's 8...