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Review: XFX GeForce 9600 GSO XXX - mid-range monster or crippled competitor?

by Michael Harries on 24 September 2008, 08:07

Tags: XFX 9600 GSO XXX 384MB, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079)

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Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Company Of Heroes: OF - 1,280x1,024 - 0xAA 0xAF - DX10
Inno3D 9800 GTXFX 9600 GSOZOTAC 9600GTSapphire HD 3850 256Sapphire HD 4670 512XFX 9600 GSO XXX
71.8954.3554.4149.7639.9365.57

Company Of Heroes: OF - 1,680x1,050 - 0xAA 0xAF - DX10
Inno3D 9800 GTXFX 9600 GSOZOTAC 9600GTSapphire HD 3850 256Sapphire HD 4670 512XFX 9600 GSO XXX
54.4640.2339.5836.543048.89

 

In our Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts benchmark, which has antialiasing and anisotropic filtering disabled, the XFX GeForce 9600 GSO matches the 9600 GT, and XFX's XXX edition is able to pull ahead.

In this benchmark the 9600 GSO's additional shader power can be put to use, unconstrained by the memory capacity or bandwidth.

Had AA been enabled, we may have seen quite a different result.