GeForce 9600GT is suppose to be the first of the GeForce 9 series to reach the market. That is if NVIDIA doesn’t decide to postpone it as well. We’ve seen a couple of pictures of the card already, and a few benchmarks. At different occasions. Over at Chinese forum Chiphell they’ve posted even more pictures, including some juicy close-ups, and they’ve tested and compared the card to GeForce 8800 Ultra, both single card and SLI.
The system was an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3.0GHz), nForce 680i SLI, 2GB RAM. It was tested in Windows Vista with driver revision 171.16 beta. The single card is not able to measure up, but in SLI it is.
| Benchmark | 9600GT | 9600GT SLI | 8800Ultra |
| 3DMark 03 1024×768 | 33325 | 55440 | 42469 |
| 3DMark 03 1280×1024 | 26138 | 44946 | 34409 |
| 3DMark 05 1024×768 | 17167 | 18805 | 17700 |
| 3DMark 05 1280×1024 | 16141 | 18427 | 17084 |
| 3DMark 06 | 10036 | 13080 | 12142 |
