VR Features

Gainward Bliss 9600GT Dynamic Duo

More Games..

Written by Firefox and filed under Reviews > GPUs & Graphic Cards
Published on April 7, 2008, 1:34 am

CommentsComments(2)  PrintPrint  EmailEmail  DiggDigg  del.icio.usdel.icio.us  RedditReddit  SlashdotSlashdot  

World in Conflict
In World in Conflict, the regular BLISS 9600GT seems to have lost its edge but doesn't fare worse either. The Golden Sample takes a 15% lead over the others here.

Enemy Territory Quake Wars
In Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, it's the same story again with the Golden Sample taking a 10% lead even in OpenGL.

Crysis
Crysis is has been a very tough nut to crack even for some of the fastest GPUs of today.
All the cards show up with a barely playable average framerate and the Golden Sample still retains its 10% edge.

In all the games, be they DirectX or OpenGL, the Golden Sample has lived up to its namesake and easily offered a 10% - 15% lead over the regular BLISS 9600GT and the NVIDIA reference 9600GT as well. It's also interesting to note that the BLISS 9600GT actually had a slight edge over the reference card despite being clocked at the same speeds. It would appear that Gainward has optimized the BIOS or PCB layout somewhat. Having seen half-height graphics cards perform worse than full-height equivalent, I'm not too surprised that layout of the board can actually affect the performance of the graphics card.