Looking to build a new gaming rig on a budget? Want to upgrade your older GeForce® 6 or 7 Series graphics card with something that can play cutting-edge DirectX 10 games at a price you can love…and can afford? It turns out you are in luck. We’ve just released the first GPU of the next-generation GeForce 9 Series, the GeForce 9600 GT.
The GeForce 9600 GT brings the biggest single-generation performance jump in NVIDIA’s history, increasing gaming performance up to 116% over the GeForce 8600 GT. Priced below $199, the 9600 GT will let you play graphics-intensive games like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3 at 1900x1200 with high image quality enabled at excellent frame rates. If you put two GeForce 9600GT cards together in SLI, you will actually get faster gaming performance than you would from a GeForce 8800GTX.
The raw specs of the 65nm GPU include 64 stream processors each clocked at 1,625 MHz, with the 512 MB GDDR3 card built on a 256-bit memory interface running at 900MHz.
Want to see how the card performs in your favorite PC game? Check out some independent GeForce 9600 GT reviews at HardOCP, FiringSquad, and PC Perspective.
I think that the NVIDIA 9600GT is EXECELLENT all i ever wanted to do was play games on my computer without trouble or the common horror *lag* all i had to do was go out n get this 9600GT for like 190bucks thats it and it has givin me my freedom so a big thankyou from me to you, Nvidia :)
Posted by: Jack | January 26, 2009 at 10:04 PM
The 9600GT is a shrunken version of th G92 chip.. But, when combined in Sli, it certianly ricks... I have used them for a week and a half now. I can play Crysis at all max settings and there is no artifacts or freezing at all. So for the $169 price tag from EVGA for the superclocked edition, its really not a bad set or cards. Granted its not faster than the 8800GTx or Ultra but who really has 500+ to spend or graphics cards??? Not all of us have high paying jobs and TOO much time on our hands... I for one aplaud nVidia for this card.
Posted by: Matt mdimaio@triad.rr.com | March 29, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Класні робите відеокарти хлопці!
В мене самого NVIDIA і я задоволений нею.
Posted by: Володя Стефанюк | March 15, 2008 at 04:03 PM
Hi!
This is a question for nvidia friends,
Sorry but I new in the study of this technology!
I'm have one NX7300GT with 256 Mb, PCI-Express and SLI ready, but my other graphic Card is the 8800 GT superclochead edition with 512 Mb, PCI-E and SLI ready.
I can combined this 2 cards for the use of the SLI technology and have best performance?
Or for the moment only used the 8800GT?
Thanks, Alf
alfredoracu@prodigy.net.mx
Posted by: Alfredo Ramírez Culebro | March 14, 2008 at 07:18 PM
i agree with arjun. two 8800gt cards in sli themselves are tremendous performers for hardcore gaming and all.
Posted by: adisakti | March 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM
I would still stick with my dual 8800Gt rather than SLI with 9600's.
Posted by: Arjun | March 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM
I'd like to have 2 of these in SLI but I'm not buying a new motherboard for it. Come on nVidia, enable SLI for non-nVidia boards, we already know it works, just do it.
Posted by: Kev | March 09, 2008 at 10:56 PM
But how much,and presumably you'll need two to take advantage of the SLI advantage. What about compatiability and interface. These are the questions the average users must ask. Don't get me wrong, Nvidia is one of the most reliable component manufactures in the business, and their track record at keeping drivers updated is is singularly unique, incomparable with any other major producer in the business.
Posted by: dbixby@comcast.net | February 28, 2008 at 09:50 PM
I consider the 7800GTX to 8800GTX performance jump a bigger one than the 9600 to the 8600...more so because these were the flagship cards when released and these were new architectures not just some die shrunken refresh (as some would say).
Posted by: [TMC]Kuyaglen | February 26, 2008 at 11:02 PM