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Hmm..some interesting results crop up in this last time we benchmark using 3DMark06 (we will be switching to the newer Futuremark benchmark program, 3dMark Vantage, for future reviews.)

For the pixel shader performance, the 9600 GSO puts in better numbers than one might expect for its price-tag. For the fill-rate bench, the 9600 GSO lags a bit behind for the single-texturing score, probably due to its 192-bit memory interface (the 8600 GTS utilizes a 128-bit memory bus, while the other cards have a 256-bit or greater bus.) However, the 9600 GSO puts in fine numbers when it came to multi-texturing fill rates. The particles score for this card is ho-hum, while the vertex shader performance numbers are poor.