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Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic review

NVIDIA's monstrous new mid-range graphics chip

Our Score 4.5

Last reviewed: 2008-03-06March 6th 2008

Price at launch £127.00
Additional Information Shader clock: 1,650MHz, Memory bus: 256-bit; Cooling fan
API Support New DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0
DVI Ports 1
GPU Nvidia
Graphics Core Clockspeed 700
Graphics Memory (Mb) 512
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 2
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
HDMI Ports 1
Nvidia Graphics Memory NVIDIA G94
Shader Support Shader Model 4.0
Vertex Shaders 64
Vertex Units 32
Video Output DVI, HDMI, HDTV, S/PDIF

Product Summary

9600GT Sonic

Price at launch

£127.00

For

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Great performance at this price point Comes awfully close to the 8800 GT chipset Makes life extremely tough for rival ATI

Against

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8800-based boards are not much more expensive

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