Performance of the Gigabyte 9600GT Turbo Force 1GB card should not be compared with the highest end cards the 4870X2 or GTX280 cards as they are literally in different price leagues of $499 or so. The problem for buying this card today is that it is competing with GeForce 9800GTX+ cards on the NVIDIA side and HD 4850 cards on the ATI side which offer higher performance across the board, for the same price point.

System

• EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard running Forceware 9.64
• Gigabyte 9600GT Turboforce 1GB card running 175.19 Forceware
• 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000 memory running at 2000MHz
• 2 WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 mode
• ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
• Rosewill 950W PSU

Tests

DX9

• Unreal Tournament 3 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF, custom FRAPS walkthrough
• COD4 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF, custom FRAPS walkthrough
• Aquamark 3
• 3DMark05/06 1280x1024, 1920x1200 default benchmark run
• PCMARK05/Vantage 1280x1024 default benchmark run
• SpecViewPerf 10

DX10

• Crysis 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
• STALKER 1280X1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom FRAPS walkthrough
• Bioshock 1280x1024,1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom FRAPS walkthrough
• Lost Planet DX10 benchmark 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF
• 3DMark Vantage 1280x1024, 1920x1200 no AA no AF, Default run GPU score