Topic: 9600GT priced at $150, performance at GTS levels? (UPDATE: THEY MADE A TYPO)

[Pugnate]

Wow....

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10397

PC Online was able to measure the performance of the 9600GT and the results confirmed NVIDIA's claims of a 100% performance increase over the 8600 series for the most part. The 9600GT reached an overall score of 10813 while the 8600GTS and 8800GS had scores of 6251 and 10391, respectively.

Additionally, the 9600GT scored higher than the 8800GTS in many of the tests including 3DMark06 and games such as Crysis, BioShock, and Unreal Tournament 3. The 9600GT came up just a little short behind the 8800GS in only a few games such as Need for Speed: ProStreet and Colin McRae Rally (coincidentally, both being auto-racing titles).

Testing of the 9600GT was performed using Beta drivers so we may see additional performance squeezed out of this card and variants from NVIDIA's partners upon official release of a final product and drivers.

They made a typo as I was told on Anandtech. Apparently it is the 8800GS and not GTS. That's still impressive, though not as much.

[gpw11]

SOLD...I guess.  When's this bitch come out?

[Quemaqua]

So... why so cheap?

[gpw11]

I imagine because the 9800 is blazingly fast.

[Quemaqua]

Even so, you'd think that would just make this comparatively less expensive, not just inexpensive by itself.  If I can theoretically afford something, then that's definitely cheap.

In any case, will have to keep my eyes peeled for more info.  Though knowing Pug, he'll do that for me because he's just awesome like that.

[beo]

nice. looks like nvidia are refraining from being dicks now that ati have screwed themselves. really wanting to buy that new rig at the end of the month, guessing it won't be available by then however...

[iPPi]

Impressive.

[Pugnate]

SOLD...I guess.  When's this bitch come out?

Feb it seems. And that is the new 8800GTS that it near equals. The new 8800GTS is slightly faster than my 8800GTX. Pretty fucking awesome eh?

So... why so cheap?

Well I guess it is what GPW said. This is going to be the mainstream card in the 9xxxx series.

The 9750GX2 will be 30% faster than the 8800GTS/Ultra, and priced at $400.

God knows how fast the 9800GTX will be.

Even so, you'd think that would just make this comparatively less expensive, not just inexpensive by itself

It may be that they are doing this because the 8600GTS took a lot of flak for being slower than the last generation $150 cards, and still priced that way.

The other thing is that for once a budget card from the next series seems to be deserving of a name from the new line. Like I said, the 8600 was named as an 8 series card, yet didn't deserve that branding. It has always been like that if you look back to the GeForce MX cards, so this is pretty good of Nvidia.

nice. looks like nvidia are refraining from being dicks now that ati have screwed themselves.

I hope ATi can stay competitive.

[Pugnate]

Updated the topic. It was a typo.

[gpw11]

I saw that before I made my last post and I'm still partially sold assuming that the benchmarks are actually real in any way.*

Assuming it's actually sold at $150, we're talking about a card that essentially is on par with an 8800GT (I believe the 8800 GS is a GT without as much VRAM and maybe a slightly slower clock, but it's hard to say as it was never fully released from what I've seen), for about $50 less, running beta drivers.  For a mainstream card, this is certainly a good thing compared with what we've had to deal with since the Radeon 9500/Geforce 3 ti200 days.  You can finally get a good card for reasonable cash without having to wait a year.

That said, considering the pricing point of the 8800GT, that might be a better deal if stores drop the price to get rid of stock when the next gen comes out. 

[Pugnate]

The price is pretty much confirmed. The performance is supposedly at 8800GS levels. They said it is twice as fast as a 8600GTS.

[MysterD]

GameSpot likes the real GF 9600 GT 512 MB for its price-range.

EDIT:
Tom's Hardware likes it, too.

[Pugnate]

Que buy this if you can find it for $150.

edit:

Anandtech review:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3234&p=8

[Quemaqua]

Hell... wallet draining... but so yummy...

eVGA comes through as usual with a slightly faster core clock and an extra DVI port for the same price as the other guys.

[gpw11]

Ok, ok, bear with me here:

This is pretty sweet, but it's pretty close in price to the 8800GT.  Wouldn't that still be a better card since this doesn't really have any feature updates?

[Pugnate]

Yes it would. I wouldn't say this is worth more than $150. The MSRP is $180, which means that in a few months you should find it at $150, I think.

[gpw11]

The other thing if anyone is willing to go ATI they totally just dropped prices.

[Pugnate]

Yea but you know how they ask you to take it up the ass once, before you purchase their product. I think it is mandatory now.

[gpw11]

Um, where the fuck are you buying your parts?

[Pugnate]

hahaha

[MysterD]

Hmmm...