does it make sense to Pc game with a mid-end card?

A 9600GT will run games at higher graphical settings and at higher resolutions with better framerates than any current console. Also the 9600GT is not a mid range card, it is a low range card these days.

[QUOTE="lowe0"]

[QUOTE="jun_aka_pekto"]

A single 460, sure. Two of them? The two together would make it high end. Heck. His GTX460 SLI craps all over my single GTX 560 Ti.

mitu123

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="lowe0"] Which isn't high-end to begin with, and with Kepler coming, it's not looking any better. I use a pair of 560 Tis, and the performance isn't exactly blowing me away.

lowe0

You're talking all kinds of crazy. 2 560s are beasts

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="lowe0"] Which isn't high-end to begin with, and with Kepler coming, it's not looking any better. I use a pair of 560 Tis, and the performance isn't exactly blowing me away.

lowe0

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/499?vs=306

[QUOTE="lowe0"][QUOTE="mitu123"] You aren't happy with way above 580 performance?

seanmcloughlin

You're talking all kinds of crazy. 2 560s are beasts

[QUOTE="lowe0"][QUOTE="mitu123"] You aren't happy with way above 580 performance?

mitu123

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/499?vs=306

A 9600GT will run games at higher graphical settings and at higher resolutions with better framerates than any current console. Also the 9600GT is not a mid range card, it is a low range card these days.

iamrob7

[QUOTE="iamrob7"]

A 9600GT will run games at higher graphical settings and at higher resolutions with better framerates than any current console. Also the 9600GT is not a mid range card, it is a low range card these days.

wewantdoom4now

Nvidia standard Geforce 9600 GT:

64 Unified shaders @ 1625 MHz = 312 GFLOPS
32 TMUs @ 650 MHz = 20.8 GTexels
16 ROPs @ 650 MHz = 10.4 GPixels
GDDR3 Bandwidth = 57.6 GB/s

VS.

Nvidia standard Geforce 8800 GT:

112 Unified shaders @ 1500 MHz = 504 GFLOPS
56 TMUs @ 600 MHz = 33.6 GTexels
16 ROPs @ 600 MHz = 9.6 GPixels
GDDR3 Bandwidth = 57.6 GBs

The 9600 GT is in my humble opinion, one of the best products to come out of Nvidia. It's excellently balanced. The 8800 GT is more powerful, but it hardly pwns the 9600 GT, and as you load up resolution, the 9600 GT eventually just catches up thanks to it's higher ROP output. I do think it's a shame that the G94 never saw the high number of revisions other Nvidia GPUs saw for future series, as it would've made a great 40 nm GPU with GDDR5 for laptops instead of Nvidia low balling us all with 32 and 48 shader GPUs. I did have an Asus with the mobile G94 in the form of the Geforce 9800M GS. Even in mobile, it bested the desktop 8800 GTS 320 MB I used to own in many games thanks to more VRAM and probably in good part thanks to the higher texture and pixel output. One roommate of mine got an Asus pretty much just like mine, and his 9800M GS is still going strong, and my other roommate had a 9600 GT for three years, and even when he replaced it last fall, it was still kicking arse.