Zotac GeForce 9600 GT Amp! Edition Review 23

Zotac GeForce 9600 GT Amp! Edition Review

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Today NVIDIA introduces the first card of the GeForce 9 Series. The GeForce 9600 GT we have on the testbench today is based on the new G94 core which is basically a cut down version of the G92 used on several GeForce 8 products like 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512. NVIDIA took most of the G92 design and removed 64 shader pipes. The render backend has remained the same. From an engineering standpoint there is absolutely no reason why this product should be called GeForce 9 and not be a GeForce 8 product. However, since the GeForce 8 lineup is already quite crowded and GeForce 9 needs a lower midrange product anyway, NVIDIA chose to call it Geforce 9600 GT. When comparing GeForce 8600 GT with 9600 GT, NVIDIA claims that performance will double just by moving one generation ahead.

Zotac has taken the NVIDIA reference design and increased the clock speeds by over 10% to have a product that stands out from the crowd of reference designs that other manfuacturers offer.

Radeon
HD 2600 XT
GeForce
8600 GTS
Radeon
HD 3850
Radeon
HD 3870
GeForce
9600 GT
Zotac 9600
GT Amp
GeForce
8800 GTS
GeForce
8800 GT
GeForce
8800 GTS
Radeon
HD 2900 XT
GeForce
8800 GTX
GeForce
8800 Ultra
Shader units 12032320320646496112128320128128
ROPs4 x2 81616161620161616 x2 2424
GPURV630G84RV670RV670G94G94G80G92G92R600G80G80
Transistors390M 289M666M 666M505M 505M 681M 754M754M700M 681M 681M
Memory Size256 MB256 MB 256 MB 512 MB 512 MB 512 MB 320 MB
640 MB
512 MB 512 MB 512 MB768 MB768 MB
Memory Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 320 bit 256 bit 256 bit 512 bit 384 bit 384 bit
Core Clock800 MHz 675 MHz 670 MHz 777 MHz 650 MHz 725 MHz 500 MHz 600 MHz 650 MHz 742 MHz 575 MHz 612 MHz
Memory Clock1100 MHz 1000 MHz 828 MHz 1126 MHz 900 MHz 1000 MHz 800 MHz 900 MHz 970 MHz 825 MHz 900 MHz 1080 MHz
Price$90$110$170$210$200$220$260
$350
$215$289$299$439$650
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