Nvidia 9600GT vs 8800GT

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Ive been doing some research on both of these cards and is seems the 9600GT is keeping up with the 8800GT, now the 96 is 512mb and the 88 is only 320. Yet it still outperforms the 96gt. And seeing as the 88GT has DOUBLE the shaders of the 96GT it and with the launch of 96gt the 88gt's prices will come down. With games to come in the future, they will be shader heavy thus choking the 9600GT. Money wize now the 9600GT is the bette option. But according to nvidia itl release at about +-R1700 - R2000. So why not rather w8 for the 88GT price to come down, ensuring your place in future games as the 96GT cannot provide..
An interesting fact : the 9600GT does not launch with dx10.1 support.. Wont make a huge diff, but it is just surprizing. Thats my views on the situation. Id rather w8 for the 9800 series with the proper core clock and shader modules than go get the 9600GT now. Any1 care to comment?
 
amount of memory means bugger all on on gfx cards
 
i hav a 9600gt its a nice card, new to the world of pc, very cool card, my laptop has a 7600 in it, so the 9600 wasa big jump and definately has better performance
 
Piesang said:
You trying to tell me that you can play a game to it's full potentional on a 64MB GFX card if it needs 128MB?

No way. Memory does mean something. Although most games only needs at max 128MB and most cards are 256MB and bigger.
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im speaking in todays context, how many new 64mb cards have you seen for sale lately?
 
What do you mean by 320 vs 512? They both have 512MB of RAM and a 256bit bus afaik.

You can get an OC version of the 8800GT for R2550 at prophecy atm, I'd go for that over a 9600GT.
 
i think what brawler meant is something with 512 meg or 786 is just fine anything above that is a total waste
 
Just go for the 2GB version Asus has, there no more problems!! :p

BTW! as for this DX10.1 Stuff... they should Fix DirectX 10 first :( IMHO there is veeery little difference betwen 9 & 10 and this was proven with those Crysis DX10 XP patches some of them look 10000 times better than the DX10 version!
 
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Glordit said:
Just go for the 2GB version Asus has, there no more problems!! :p

BTW! as for this DX10.1 Stuff... they should Fix DirectX 10 first :( IMHO there is veeery little difference betwen 9 & 10 and this was proven with those Crysis DX10 XP patches some of them look 10000 times better than the DX10 version!
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I'd think that 10.1 is trying to start fixing some things with 10, it hardly adds any new features.

btw Killa I meant the original poster. He says the 8800GT has 320MB. :confused:
 
Piesang said:
You trying to tell me that you can play a game to it's full potentional on a 64MB GFX card if it needs 128MB?

No way. Memory does mean something. Although most games only needs at max 128MB and most cards are 256MB and bigger.
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no i meant this quote ekhaat :)

i think once you get past 786 memory becomes pointless
 
As a mid range card the 9600GT is pretty impressive ito its stats. But at R500 bucks more I'd also go for that oc'd 8800GT.
 
As I posted previously - I would only consider the 9600GT if it were selling for around R1500-R1700. For the extra few hundred bucks at current 9600GT prices it is better to get the 8800gt (even the std ed) ... and you will not endure 'buyer's remorse' ...
 
milomak said:
As a mid range card the 9600GT is pretty impressive ito its stats. But at R500 bucks more I'd also go for that oc'd 8800GT.
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but if u dont have R500 more than ul settle for the 9600gt like i did i think its a cool card.works well, playing bioshock and cod 4 on it and they run well
 
tyerone if 2 grand is all you have then a 9600GT will not imo leave you high and dry.
 
Pisses me off that a midrange card costs so much, should be around R1200-R1500 region. No wonder why so many people opt for consoles these days.
 
To clarify things the 8800GT has 512mb. and the 800GTS has 320mb. My bad 4got to put it in. the benches i saw was all done with the 8800GTS. but still the 8800GT has got bigger performance over 9600GT in its benchmarks i looked at
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I can reaffirm the fact that memory is less important in certain situations. I have a 8800GTS 320 XXX that still is faster than a 9600GT (even with its 512MB).

The memory questions only plays it's hand when you require an increase in texture memory. When you initialise higher resolution textures, only then does more memory matter.

I play Crysis x64 in DX10 at high settings at 1280x1024, at 41 fps. :cool: The 9600GT doesn't do that.

I think the 9600GT is awesome value, because of it's all-round ability as midrange goes. Lets all hope that the 9800GT will due justice to the G9x series.
 
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