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[cubanlord]

http://www.evga.com/articles/394.asp

discuss.

[ujin821]

lol, way to screw over all of those people who bought brand new 8 series models only a few months ago

[eamo]

Pretty much matches the ATI HD3870....................now that ATI have cut the prices of the 3850/3870.

Good time to buy a quality graphics card for less than 200 dollars.

[chevro1et]

Seems odd for nVidia to launch mid-range cards first, they usually come out full guns blazing with the high-end stuff first. Performance-wise, it seems to fall somewhere between the (g92)8800gt and the HD3870 with only 64 stream processors. I guess that bodes well for the rest of the 9-series when it is released. Have to see where it fits in for price vs performance of the other two cards mentioned.

[cubanlord]

[cbclark4]

Not available in PCMCIA?

[hanguker]

[eamo]

This card is out to regain mid-range market share which nVidia has lost to ATI.

No doubt nVidia will bring out a high-end master-blaster within a couple of months. They're probably building up to the 9800 series.

Here's a look at where this new card fits in....



At 1280 resolution it does well.....

.......but try to play at 1600 and things change....



Still, very little difference. Even extreme OC-ing gets only a few FPS more.

[hanguker]

Tom's has a pretty thorough review. Seems to favor the 8800GT more than the site you're checking. But I want the 9600...great bang for the buck!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/21/nvidia_geforce_9600_gt/

[tractor]

[cubanlord]

naw. I'll wait until the daddy comes out like a GTX with at least 512ram on it (preferably 1gig).

[Demophobe]

Yawn.

Purely competitive moves are boring. If Nvidia had released their 9 series monster first (in true fashion), that would be interesting.

But, they put out a card solely designed to recapture the $200 market...meh.

The good from this is that the card makers are starting to see that $600 cards are not their bread and butter and with ATI's 38XX series arrival, they need to put out cheaper cards that aren't so crippled.

The future is multi GPU anyhow. The same R&D copout both Intel and AMD are taking.

[Temporary]

The 9 series is a joke. These monolithic designs are on their last legs, multi-gpu is the future.

[kprrok]

From what I've read about it, the "new" 9-series is just an extension of the 8800GT core with nothing much new or changed. I'll wait around for the next one or keep looking at the 3870.

KPRROK

[cubanlord]