Tweaktown published today a detailed review about the Geforce 9600 GT from Galaxy production. This card was compared with higher segment video card : GeForce 8800 gt and AMD Radeon HD 3870.
Here is the Test system :
* processor: Intel Core 2 quad Q6600, overclocked to 3 GHz
* Motherboard : GIGABYTE X48-dq6
* Memory: 2 X 1 GB Kingston PC6400 Ddr-2 3-3-3-10
* hard disk: Seagate 250 GB, 7200 rp/min
* OS: Windows xp Professional SP2, Windows vista SP1
* drivers: Catalyst 8.1, Forceware 174.11 (9600GT Win XP), Forceware 171.16 (9600GT Win Vista), Forceware 169.21 (8800GT Win XP) and Forceware 169.25 (8800GT Win Vista) .
The results, obtained in the four popular test are below:
The 9600 GT was faster in game then Radeon HD 3870 and loose only in 3DMark 06 test. In this case, the recommended price for the GeForce 9600 gt is only 169-189 dollars. AMD had to take the necessary steps to correct its prices. This is, the first NVIDIA video card with 256- bit memory bus , positioned under $200 .