Nvidia readies mid-range GeForce 9600 GT

Nvidia has begun attempting to tempt its graphics card manufacturer partners with the GeForce 9600 GT chip, leaked presentation slides have revealed. Nvidia will pitch the part as "big on performance, easy on the wallet".

The GPU, apparently codenamed 'D9M', is a DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 product designed for PCI Express 2.0 cards. It'll be fabbed at 65nm, and Nvidia claims it will deliver a performance boost of up to 90 per cent over the GeForce 8600 GTS.

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Now thats Gona be a hit...
This is what i have been waiting for...guess the price guys

lets see:

9000 is onboard
9400 is the basic just works type card
9600 is mid range performer
9800 is the ultimate beast

so what about 9200?

90% over 8600 gts

Thanks for the info. giga

its getting cheaper and cheaper..yet more performance *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/39a.gif

Thanks for the info

Thanks for the info. So at last it can tackle Crysis at 1280 X 1024 @ 50-60fps. When is the expected release date?

^^initial prices are gonna be highly exaggerated.This is how there biatches work.Don't expect a price lower than 40-50k for 9800gtx and 10-12k for 9600gt.

sooner 8600gt will come even more cheaper if these big daddies come into market..

^^I already bought one for 5.2k

,I waited for its prices to come down to ~5k from 10k.

i will upgrade my 7600gt then....thats my tatics for now, wait for 2 gen , then upgrade :-D

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@x3060
same for me..I didn't get 8600GT coz there is only minor performance boost from ma current 7600GT. ill make up for it with gud ocing like 690/1620 clocks.
i was thinking bout 8800GT nd the new 8800GS, but wait. I can play 90% games at gud quality on ma current monitor's max res now. So i think i can hold the horses till 9600 nd 9800.

Now thats one called as "the great news"

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i'm keeping aside 8k for it.hopefully atleast "the easy on wallet" tagline should be true

hmmmm so where does this leave 8800gt

^^^

behind.

wat else.

Nice stuff. These cards are really tempting to buy even though I don't play games

There is not much things to do with it which u cant do witha gud onboard other than playing if things went as u said, goobi.

Well that's the thing. I bought a 7900GT and I haven't played a single game on it

But you are heavily into animation and 3D modelling and stuff na?

Besides gaming I have no use for that card. I don't use my PC for anything other than music, internet, movies. I had bought the card with an intention to game, but I just can't do it

aravind_n20 said:
There is not much things to do with it which u cant do witha gud onboard other than playing if things went as u said, goobi.

Now what did i say???
i was kinda haf sleeping while i said that[really]
..........
or is that the other way around? Am i haf sleeping now?

I thing that pr0n thread got you all messed up!

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Thanks Gigacore for the info.
Though its 90% more performance over the 8600GTS i still suggest that people wait for the 9800GT 256MB which will not only be cheaper to some extent but also cost effective with over 14,000 in 3D Mark for sure.
The 90% means 8200-9500 to 3DMark06.

*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/20.gif so, my 8600GT XXX edition is outdated!! *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/20.gif

^^The 8600GT was outdated when the 8800GT was released *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/31a.gif

Hi guys
9600GT benchs released
VR-Zone claims to have some benchmarks of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9600 GT graphics card, which will be the first of the GeForce 9 series of cards that the company will release. However, as always with benchmarks for unreleased products, take these with a pinch of salt - as often as not they're totally made up.
*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-13/9600bench1.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-13/9600bench2.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-13/9600bench3.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-13/9600bench4.jpg

read on:
*www.techpowerup.com/index.php?49599

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9600 GT definately seems a good buy BUT
8800 ultra prices will fall surely so once 9800 ULTRA is released we should get 8800 ultra as the prices will be very cheap........

@dominator

why is that the 8800GT 256 MB score more than the 512 MB version in the 3d mark score.....is it to prove that those benchies are fake ??

@iMav

one reason would be that the prices for Ati products are priced very high here in india...and also i saw somewhere(probably in anandtech) that the 256 MB 8800GT falls right between the 3850 and 3870 512 MB parts in performance....

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I have also posted early leaks with a quadcore QX9650.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78008

@ax3: If you have the money to get a PS3 then go for it

More benchmarks here..

*www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0801/1205247.html [chinese site]

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NO one would ever know what to do with it.You could link the google translated version.