Four GeForce 9600 GT Cards Compared

3D Power Sorted By Resolution And Anti-aliasing Settings

Here you’ll find the results of the frame rates and relative percentages, sorted by resolution and anti-aliasing settings. This makes it easier to compare the graphics cards when looking for a specific screen size or resolution.

Remember that the image quality of LCD screens appears best when run at their native resolution (for example 22 inches at 1680x1050 pixels).

The reference 9600 GT was tested with the ForceWare 175.16 and GeForce 177.92 drivers, the HD 4870 with the Catalyst 8.6 and 8.8 drivers. The new graphics drivers contribute 2% to the results.

Without anti-aliasing activated, the performance gain of the new driver versions is still roughly 2%.

At 1680x1050 pixels, you can’t see a significant difference in the performance of the HD 4870 between the Catalyst graphics drivers 8.6 and 8.8. Nvidia’s 9600 GT gains slightly more than 2% in performance from the driver update.

With anti-aliasing enabled, AMD performance increases by 1% when running the HD 4870 with Catalyst 8.8 instead of 8.6. The Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT speeds up by a solid 5% when the current beta driver version is installed.

Again, the Catalyst 8.8 delivers a 2% performance boost when running the HD 4870 at 1920x1200 pixels. The Geforce 9600 GT shows a performance increase of 3.7% with the driver update.

With anti-aliasing, the frame rate of the HD 4870 increases by 1% when using the Catalyst 8.8 instead of 8.6. The GeForce 9600 GT gains exactly 5% more power from the current beta graphics driver.