Finding the Mid-range Sweet Spot - GeForce 9600 GT Showdown
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Test Setup
Like all our graphics benchmarking, the nine GeForce 9600 GT cards were tested on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) machine with an Intel D975XBX motherboard. This system has 2GB of low latency Kingston HyperX memory (DDR2-800) and is also equipped with a Seagate 7200.7 SATA hard drive. We used Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and updated to DirectX 9.0c. Below are all the cards tested in this roundup, comparing their clock speeds (default clocks are 650/1800MHz) and the estimated retail prices where available. Those listed in US dollars are generally not found locally.
Graphics Card | Core Clock | Memory Clock | Stream Processor Clock | Estimated Retail Price |
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ASUS EN9600 GT | 650MHz | 1800MHz DDR | 1625MHz | S$299 |
Gigabyte GV-NX96T512H-B | 650MHz | 1800MHz DDR | 1625MHz | S$299 |
Leadtek WinFast PX9600 GT Extreme | 720MHz | 1800MHz DDR | 1750MHz | S$309 |
Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic | 700MHz | 2000MHz DDR | 1750MHz | US$210 |
Sparkle GeForce 9600 GT 512MB | 660MHz | 1800MHz DDR | 1700MHz | US$249 |
XFX GeForce 9600 GT 512MB XXX | 700MHz | 2000MHz DDR | 1750MHz | S$319 |
XpertVision GeForce 9600GT Sonic | 700MHz | 2000MHz DDR | 1750MHz | S$309 |
Zotac GeForce 9600 GT AMP! Edition | 725MHz | 2000MHz DDR | 1750MHz | ~US$208 |
We used ForceWare 174.12 for all these cards, a beta version of the just released 174.16 WHQL candidate from NVIDIA. There shouldn't be any significant performance difference between the two and we tested the GeForce 9600 GT cards here in our usual benchmarks, using the included time demos and other built-in benchmarking tools available in these games. This list is as follows:
- Futuremark 3DMark06 (ver 110)
- Company of Heroes (ver 1.3)
- F.E.A.R (ver 1.0)
- World in Conflict (ver 1.05)
- Supreme Commander (patched to 3255)
- Crysis (ver 1.1)
- Unreal Tournament 3 (ver 1.1)
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