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Nvidia 9600GT - pics and specs

Richdog said:
This card looks quality... I just can't understand how they say this is a replacement for the 8600GTS and yet it's priced the same as an 8800GT, even the performance is within sniffing distance, sometimes at 1920x too. They've priced it out of the market almost... I mean who in their right mind would buy a 9600GT for £125 when you can get an 8800GT for a tenner more? And at the same time if they HAD of priced it at £80, who the hell would have paid nearly double the price for an 8800GT? I think this is a bizzarre move from Nvidia, and imo they have released this card before the market is ready for it. They should have waited a few months.


Unless they got a replacement for the 8800gt coming up? at around 160/180
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I think the 9600 GT's ideal price would be around £100. Competes with the Radeon 3850 and Radeon 3870 without really intruding in the 8800 GT's price territory, and at the same time the increase in price with the 8800 GT is still just about justified. Edit: Also, incidentally, that's around the price the 8600 GTS was introduced at.
 
easyrider said:
So it has to be cheaper than the 256mb 8800 GT then.
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Theoretically yes... but in practise it's unlikely it will be due to price gouging. However from the looks of the benchies id rather have a 512MB 9600GT than a memory-starved 256MB 8800GT.
 
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256MB dies at 1680, it can't cut it with high details in modern games. My 320MB GTS couldn't even cut it, gave massive hitching in many games.
 
Richdog said:
256MB dies at 1680, it can't cut it with high details in modern games. My 320MB GTS couldn't even cut it, gave massive hitching in many games.
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I'm not saying it will be ideal but will a 9600 really cut it?

And yield better FPS over the 8800 GT just cause of the extra ram?
 
I have personally found that in intensive games, 256MB of RAM causes hitching to the point where the impact on my enjoyment would be greater than the slight trade-off in FPS by using a slightly slower (eg: 9600GT) card with 512MB.

From my quick skim of the review the 9600GT looks to be about ~15% slower than the 8800GT overall... still quick enough to run most games smoothly. The 256MB 8800GT would be theoretically able to run things smoother... but the 256MB of RAM would cause hitching even if FRAPS says it's running at 40fps. Personally it drives me mad, I would never buy any card lower than 512MB now.
 
If I'm not mistaken the screenshot of that review doesn't show DX10.1, which is just stupid. Either that or the program cannot read it.

This should be priced <£100 otherwise you might as well get a 8800GT? It would make sense if the 9800 GT etc we're available now but there not.
 
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