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Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic Review & SLI Testing - PAGE 1
Kevin Spiess - Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Like ShareThe ninth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce series is now here!
It's amazing how fast GPU (and gaming) technology develops. Time marches on, and video card technology races into the future. The difference between the state of the gaming art in 2008, and the state of the gaming art in 2004, is downright incredible. What future games will look like will be even harder to believe -- and today, we are one small step closer to this future, as the 8th generation of NVIDIA's GeForce passes into the 9th.
The 9600GT series is aimed to dominate the mid-range of graphic card options, and we are going to check out in depth. We're going to bench it against 9 other cards, and we also have some SLI numbers to look at, so hang on to your hats.
Today we will be looking at a 9600 GT design from Palit: the GeForce 9600GT Sonic. While the competition between the $170 and $235 mark is fierce with NVIDIA's 8800 GT 256/512 MB, and ATI's recently price-cut HD 3850/3870 in the fray, the competition is just about to go up another notch: the 9600 GT will be priced around $190 initially, putting it right into the thick of things. Our Palit 9600GT Sonic will be retailing for a little bit more than this standard 9600GT price, at a MSRP of $219 -- but as you'll see soon, it is not a standard 9600GT.
But the 9600 GT's are shaping up to be pretty good deals. Although, with big price cut on HD 3870 cards, it's a tough call. Either way you can get a lot of game power for about 200 bucks though
- Christine
Actually we don't send them back -- we just add the reviewed cards to what I call the "Archive of Justice" (which is basically a tall shelf, filled with video cards.)
But unfortunately I can't check the memory out for you. I'm not at the office. Perhaps tomorrow however.
After looking for a decent mid range gpu i came across this card. With this card overclocked how much improvement would it be to the card used on teh review?
Well, the Palit 9600GT is an overclocked card as well, with 700 MHz core, 1000 MHz memory clock. The MSI card has a 700 MHz core, and a bit slower memory at 950 MHz.
Basically you are looking at pretty similar level of performance.
There are multiple Sonics. The revised Sonic has different (better) cooler, and 1GB of memory. The Sonic that I reviewed came out at launch and had 512MB.
I'm not sure (this is all going from memory) but I think they also removed the plastic shroud on the new Sonic.
The new Sonic also had the 1GB designation in its name. It was like 9600GT Sonic 1GB I believe, whereas this one was just the 9600GT Sonic.
GET THEM you wont regret it:)