XFX 9600GT Graphics Card

This card is based on the latest 9-series chipset from NVIDIA. It comes with

512MB of GDDR3 RAM and has 700MHz of core clock speed. It's much sleeker than

the Palit 9600GT (reviewed March 08), but has only dual DVI ports as compared to

the four display options in Palit 9600GT. XFX has added support for HDMI to the

9600GT, which is a welcome change. However, the only pressing issue with the

9-series is that it doesn't support Direct X 10.1, unlike the ATI Radeon 3800

series.

We expected the card to perform well in our tests and it didn't disappoint at

all. In 3D Mark06, it scored 10,408 which is excellent and close to what we got

from Palit 9600GT or ATI Radeon HD 3870. In Company of Heroes game, the score of

106 fps at max setting is again on the higher side though slightly less than

what we got from Palit 9600GT, but much higher than what ATI Radeon HD3870

scored-85.7 fps. In Unreal Tournament 3 it managed an average score of 93.26 fps

which is again much higher than any 8800GT cards or even the ATI Radeon HD3870

card. In Crysis again it managed a very high fps score at max setting. Put two

9600 GTs together and you could get performance that is at par with a high end

8800 GTX card.

Bottomline: Gaming can't get any cheaper than

this; go and grab without inhibitions.