I tried to summarize the data from the table on the last page so I checked which card was better at the highest playable settings in each game.

The GeForce has won 6 games (BF 2142, CoD 4, HL2: E2, STALKER, TR: Legeng and Gothic 3), and Radeon was better in 4 (ET: QW, UT 3, TES IV, both indoor and outdoor, and C&C 3); Bioshock was a draw (equally playable at the highest resolution); of the games that were unplayable at all resolutions (at least the way they were tested, with everything maxed out and with AA and AF), 2 ran a little better on the 9600 (LP: EC and World in Conflict), two others were better on the 3870 (Call of Juarez and Crysis) and 2 more were equally bad (under highest possible settings) with both cards (Hellgate: London and CoH: OF); finally, the synthetics favoured the Radeon.

So it's pretty close, and it's down to which card is cheaper and more easily available where one lives, or which brand one preferres.

ATI HD3870 support DX10.1 so I think ATI more favour then 9600GT for now

HD3870 FTW!

Unless you have something against AA, try the XFX 9600GT. They are over at Newegg for 149usd with rebate. Skip the AMD garbage.

What a meaningless review. How many of the resolutions were playable? Why waste the time with a review when all cards are performing under 30 fps?

How can anybody play games with average frame rate below 90 fps, when vsync is disabled? I play games with such settings, when graphics card can almost always render 60 fps, when vsync is enabled.

Why is the GeForce 8800GS never included in these comparisons?

Alexey Stepin or Yaroslav Lyssenko i don't know if you know about this issue: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/Shady_9600_GT/

But maybe you can check something for me. Can you run Clockgen and see what frequency the PCI-E port is running on the 680i when the 9600GT is plugged in?

There's a mistake in the article. In the Test Bed section >>> 8800 GT 512 MB has 112 SP, not 128 SP.

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what drivers were you using, and how were you setting them to a constant 4* FSAA/ 16* aniso/ HDR, cause i bet not all the games supported it
also, were any cards overclocked and how were they cooled

guys, try to buy a new cpu. logically,- quad core intel cpu (qx9650, may be)

glad to see our team at foreign website with such a good overviews!!!

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I bought Gaiward GeForce 9600 GT GS week ago and it's really great card for gaming. I decided to buy it because my LCD has maximum resolution 1280x1024 and for this resolution this card is the best choise. I play Crysis at 1024x768 at high details and framerate is from 30 to 60 (sometimes it's less than 30 but not often and it's caused mainly by my little amount of RAM - only 1GB). Other games like BioShock, UTIII, Gears Of War, Lost Planet run perfectly at resolution 1280x1024 and maximum details. It cost me 255$ and it's worth its price. I strongly recomend this card for all games enthusiasts :)

Have you tried the graphic card without the fan? It would be interesting :P

I haven't :P I measured the temp with fan using GPU-Z. In idle it's approximately 32 C and during load it's max 47 C (when I played Lost Planet). The fan speed was always fixed at 35% (standard value) which makes card inaudible :)

Looking at this the 9600 gt 512mb gs is a bit worse than the 8800 gt only buy 2 fps that not bad

nice!! :)

Thank you for this excellent review. I think I'll buy the 9600 GT soon. Not because is a little bit faster than hd3870 but I like the connecting capabilities.

This does not show the test system so these benchmarks could either be really good or really bad. We have no way to know.