NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Launch and 3-Way Shootout - HotHardware

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Launch and 3-Way Shootout

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Power consumption is an interesting variable which many people are curious about. Since NVIDIA’s new G94 is largely based on its G92 (GeForce 8800 GTGTS 65nm) predecessor, which was fairly modest in terms of power consumption, many are hoping that this new generation of mid-range components will perform even better in this regard. In order to prove this out, we used a hardware AC wattage monitor and tested our boards sitting at the windows desktop, along with running a GPU intensive application for a prolonged amount of time. This scenario also let us test minimum and maximum GPU thermal levels.






While the G94 has less stream processors compared to the G92 featured in the GeForce 8800 GT, we don’t see a huge decrease in power consumption.  Under heavy load, we see about a 10 Watt difference between a stock clocked 8800 GT and a stock clocked GeForce 9600 GT and our overclocked GeForce 9600 GT cards close that gap a little.    In general, power consumption for these new GeForce 9600 GT cards is very tolerable, although we didn’t see any large gains in efficiency like we would have hoped for.  All of our GeForce 9600 GT cards consumed slightly more power compared to the AMD Radeon HD3870/3850 cards we tested.

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Finally somekind of a 9 Series video card is already out. They perform quite well though in SLI. I bet it would run crysis nicely in SLI mode if I can run Crysis right now with my 8800GTS 512 video card.

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 When will the rest of the cards come out?

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They've pushed back the other cards a bit, such as the 9800GX2 (Or whatever the final name will be) which is similar to the 7950GX2 from before. I'm hoping they hit us with a better single chip solution though so drivers won't be a problem like last time.

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You know, I saw one of those Palit cards on eBay a week ago and thought it was some kind of scam because of how odd it looked (and the fact that I've never heard of Palit before).

I can't wait to see what Nvidia has in store for their enthusiast class cards.

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 great deal for the price

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I like what you guys said about performance per dollar and that is exactly how I decide on what Goes into my systems. Wether amd or intel, ati or nvidia whatever gives me the best for my money is what makes the final decision.

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 Hi All,

Agreed. That to me as well is important.

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Great review however being that this is a midrange card I think it should havebeen priced in that catagory.

WIth the 3800 series getting a nice price cut along with the 8800GS and 9600GT, I'm in a pickle with my upgrade decision.

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After reading a few other reviews and based on the price of the 9600GT I think it would be much better just to get a 8800GT since you can get them for the same price and cheaper when on sale. 

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