Finally, a price to performance shootout review!

[Rogozhin]

This is a nice review of many different contemporary high end vgas. Let me know what your impressions are.

Rogo

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1061938,00.asp

 

[Blastman]

Linked... extremetech

Price performance aside, I was quite surprised that the 9600pro actually beat the 9500pro in both 3DMark03 and 3DGG (GameGage) in that test.

We used our two usual suspects for testing, FutureMark's 3DMark2003 and our own 3D GameGauge 3.0, which is a suite of game tests consisting of:

Comanche 4 (Direct3D)
Dungeon Siege (Direct3D)
IL-2 Sturmovik (OpenGL)
Jedi Knight II (OpenGL)
NASCAR 2002 (Direct3D)
NHL 2002 (Direct3D)
Serious Sam SE (OpenGL)
Unreal Performance Test Build 927 (Direct3D)

We take an average frame rate from each of these games and then calculate a geometric mean to determine the final 3D GameGauge score.

We tested at 1280x960 for 3DMark03, and for half the games in 3D GameGauge 3.0, we also used 12x9. For those games that don't support that resolution, we used 1280x1024. For all testing, we tested with 4X AA and 8X AF enabled.