Palit 9600GT Sonic 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review Palit's tweaking makes the 9600GT Sonic roughly at par with nVidia's Geforce 8800GTS (650 MHz core / 970 MHz mem). The Geforce 9600GT features 64 stream processors, supports SLI and is PCI Express 2.0 and HDCP compliant.  84% Rating:    Table of Contents Filed under: Video Cards Published:  Author:  External Mfg. Website: Palit Feb 21 2008   Max Page   Home > Reviews > Video Cards > Palit 9600GT Sonic

FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to follow.

Sierra FEAR 1.08 1024x768: FPS Ranking Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 177 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 207 MSI RX2600XT Diamond 103 Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 188 Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 109 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 168 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 150 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 143 GeForce 8600GTS SLI 149 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 111 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 107 Albatron 8600GT-256 94 Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H SLI 97 MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 54 MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 143 MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 138 MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 112 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 78 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 68 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 159 Asus EN8800GT TOP/G/HTDP/512M/A 160 Palit 9600GT Sonic 512 183 1600x1200: FPS Ranking Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 119 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 153 MSI RX2600XT Diamond 49 Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 114 Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 59 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 143 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 108 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 103 GeForce 8600GTS SLI 97 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 56 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 54 Albatron 8600GT-256 48 Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H SLI 39 MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 28 MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 110 MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 79 MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 60 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 39 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 34 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 135 Asus EN8800GT TOP/G/HTDP/512M/A 138 Palit 9600GT Sonic 512 128 1024x768 w/Soft Shadows Enabled: FPS Ranking Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 143 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 167 MSI RX2600XT Diamond 53 Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 91 Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 66 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 144 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 113 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 112 GeForce 8600GTS SLI 110 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 61 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 60 Albatron 8600GT-256 52 Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H SLI 58 MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 23 MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 114 MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 85 MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 63 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 40 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 31 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 136 Asus EN8800GT TOP/G/HTDP/512M/A 139 Palit 9600GT Sonic 512 134 1600x1200 w/Soft Shadows Enabled: FPS Ranking Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 75 Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 104 MSI RX2600XT Diamond 18 Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 42 Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 30 MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 82 Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 55 MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 57 GeForce 8600GTS SLI 51 Foxconn 8600GTS-256 27 MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 26 Albatron 8600GT-256 20 Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H SLI 17 MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 10 MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 59 MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 39 MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 30 Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 18 Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 14 MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC 75 Asus EN8800GT TOP/G/HTDP/512M/A 76 Palit 9600GT Sonic 512 57

In FEAR, the last of the DirectX 9 benchmarks, we see the Palit 9600GT Sonic videocard performing very competitively. It really is a mainstream videocard in the literal sense, but at lest you won't have problems playing this game on the Geforce 9600GT.