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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.
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Advanced Videocard Benchmarks: Quake 4, FEAR, HD Content Playback
Quake 4
is the latest shooter from ID and is based on the Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for
more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be tougher on videocards and systems than
its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does not have a 60 fps limiter like Doom 3,
with the Ultra setting, graphic textures can surpass the 500MB mark! Each test
is run three times and with the third run being recorded.
If you
like first person shooters and want to play with AA/AF enabled, the Palit 9600GT
Sonic videocard will keep you happy. Look at those framerates with everything
enabled 91.6FPS! AF has literally no impact by itself, so we're dropping it from
this benchmark from now on.
 Sierra FEAR 1.08 |
Source: Sierra |
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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.
In FEAR,
turning AA on all the way really kills the Palit 9600GT Sonic's framerates.
Moderate levels of AA still produce a brilliant picture with decent
framerates.
| High Definition Content Playback |
Source: AMD.com |
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 Playing high
definition content on current generation PCs can bog down even the fastest
processors because there is more data to handle. To test PureVideo's HD
accelerating capabilities, we played a High Definition 720P amd 1080i version of
"the Discoverers" back through Windows Medial Player 11. CPU utilization was
monitored during playback through Task Manager to give a general indication of
system load.
 High Definition Content Playback
Utilization Results |
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| With the Palit
9600GT Sonic, CPU usage is remains very low for both the 720p and 1080i
tests in general; load ranges between 8-14%. No matter what you run, CPU
load still allows applications to run in the background while providing
smooth video
playback. |
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