The PALiT 9600GT 1GB Sonic video card takes a stab at the age old question, is more better?

INTRODUCTION

A flurry of video cards have been released in the last few weeks. A mind boggling assortment ranging from the 9800GTX+, GTX260, GTX280, ATI 4850 and ATI 4870. However, the card I will be looking at today from PALiT multimedia is the slightly older variant the the 9600GT. 

 

The PALiT GeForce 9600 GT video card utilizes the NVIDIA G94 graphics processor, which is essentially a scaled down G92 GPU with half the cores disabled. PALiT bucks the norm here though by using 1024 MB video frame buffer vs. the stock 512MB found on most GT’s. And of course, the card is fully PCI Express 2.0 compliant, and thus can take advantage of data rates up to 5.0 GBps.

 

The PALiT 9600GT Sonic is factory overclocked, the stock clocks for a 9600GT are 650MHz/1800MHz, the PALiT is clocked at 700MHz/2000MHz through a 256-bit memory interface.  Also, the card features 64 stream processors operating at 1750 MHz shader clock speed.

 So let’s dig in and see how this card stacks up in the mid- range market…