Testing the GeForce 9600 GT

Peter G. 21 Feb, 2008 at 12:17pm ET Article published in Tech

The new GeForce 9600GT hits the streets today, and reviews are coming in in droves. The card seems to fall in nicely with the Radeon HD 3870, posting numbers shy of the 8800GT.

Guru3D sets the stage with an ambitious SIX CARD shoot-out comparing the NVIDIA reference design with cards from BFG, ECS, eVGA, Galaxy and Point of View. Their reviewer came away well chuffed with the card’s performance. It’s not top dog, but it offers a hell of a lot of value for the money.

TweakTown tested the ZOTAC GeForce 9600GT 512MB AMP! Edition, which comes overclocked out of the box and stayed ahead of the HD 3870 an overwhelming amount of the time. It rolls out their door with a 93 percent approval rating. Not too shabby. Hexus took the card a step further with some overclocking and pushed the benchmarks up another 8 percent.

On the ATi front, Hexus also reports ATi is cutting prices on the HD 3xxx-series cards in a competitive move.

Comments

23 Feb 2008 ~ 10:33am Hawk I'd really like to get the eVGA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB SSC edition.
Seems that's a real performer.
OC'ed it seems to outperform the other brands.
The eVGA SSC model kicks butt, with clocks set at 740/1850/1950 (core/shaders/memory).
Very nice for a middle of the road price/power/clock speeds.
23 Feb 2008 ~ 1:43pm GnomeWizardd EVGA = A+ cards Great support too
23 Feb 2008 ~ 7:16pm Mikail-Critchki This is great news, finally I can afford a HD 3870.

I'm a poor bastard