Why NVIDIA 9600 GT Delayed ?

The Inquirer has got something which shows the possible reason for the delay of NVIDIA 9600 GT card.

NVIDIA found a small percentage of GeForce 9600 GT boards exhibiting a voltage transient on the NVDD power supply during certain applications. They have reason to believe that this may cause a system hang under certain conditions. In order to provide the most robust and reliable solution possible to NVIDIA's customers they have decided to hold shipments in order to make some minor modifications to reduce the transients.

NVIDIA's engineering team has identified the necessary modifications and they are in the process of verification. I will communicate the exact modifications to you as soon as they have been verified and we will communicate the new shipping schedule in the next few days.

Since we are now running into the Chinese New Year holiday NVIDIA have decided to move the launch date out a week in order to ensure that our partners have enough time to get product on shelves at the time of launch.

***New GeForce 9600 GT launch date is Feb. 21st***

Please make sure that all partners are aware of the new launch date and let me know if you have any questions.

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GeForce 9600 GT Launch Pushed Back

According to TCMagazine,we have to wait a bit more before getting our hand on NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT.

Due to several reasons which apparently include a voltage problem and the Chinese New Year, the Green Goblin of Santa Clara has decided to delay the release of the G94-powered GeForce 9600 GT. The new mainstream card which is set to have 64 Stream Processors and will be clocked at 650, 1625 and 1800 MHz for the GPU, shaders and 512MB GDR3 memory respectively is planned for a February 21st release, one week later than originally desired.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT Reviewed

All game freaks might be eagerly waiting for the upcoming NVIDIA's GeForce 9600GT and so as I.It look's like the GeForce 9600 isn't too far away,as the net have been already flooded with benchmarks.And this time its PCOnline who have some benchmark results and it looks quite impressive.

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB uses the 65nm G94 GPU and is clocked at 650MHz with 1625MHz shaders and 1800MHz GDDR3 memory. The card has a 256-bit memory bus and has support for DX10, DX10.1 is still only available on ATI's cards.

The results will speak for themselves, but there's no denying that this is looking to be one of the best mid-range cards ever. It beats the competition in just about every test and PCOnline has turned up the resolution quite high in most games.

If this is what we get from NVIDIA then ATI certainly can expect a tough competition ahead for its 3850-series from this card and things could get even more interesting from customer's side when these cards battle it out in the market.

Check the complete review from here.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Benchmarked

Expreview has published some 3D benchmarks of the NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9600 GT card.The site published a photo of a system with a GeForce 9600 GT 512MB graphics card. The card features a 650MHz core, 1625MHz shaders and 1800MHz memory.


The below results were found on system having QX9650 (333MHz x 9) CPU, Asus Maximus Formula ROG X38 DDR3 motherboard and Geil 1GBX2 DDR2 800MHz 4-4-4-10-1T memory.They used Windows Vista Ultimate and NVIDIA ForceWare 169.25WHQL drivers.



The performance of this GeForce 9600 GT is quite impressive to replace the existing GeForce 8600 GT cards but can't beat the the high-end cards.Inspite of that the result is pretty attractive and would give Radeon HD 3850/3670 a run for its money.

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GeForce 9600 GT Comes With Mere DX10 Support

"Great performance.Easy for your wallet." - Is the new slogan for the next series NVIDIA graphics card.

Chile Hardware have some exclusive information about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9600 GT.

NVIDIA has been preparing a new Mainstream card this time based on the G90 core,which will be the replacement of the GeForce 8600 series.

There are things quite interesting contrast to what has been said ,the card only supports DirectX 10.0 and not DirectX 10.1 ,it incorporates PCI Express 2.0 support, a single connector SLI requires a source of 400W and comes equipped with 512MB GDDR3.

NVIDIA announced that the card will have up to 90% higher performance compared to a 8600GT.

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Mid - Range Nvidia G94 Cards In February

Digitimes reports that Nvidia will launch the mid-range part for its GeForce 9600 GPU series, codenamed D9P or G94, in February 2008, according to sources with graphics cards makers.

The G94, the first mid-range GPU to feature a 256bit memory interface, is expected to pose a strong challenge to AMD's Radeon HD 3850 (RV670PRO) of the same class, the sources commented.

The sources revealed that while Nvidia's latest entry-level G98 (D8M) GPU, made at the 65nm process, has started shipping since early December, the G94 will make its debut on February 14. The G94 will also be made on a 65nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the sources added.

The sources previously had said Nvidia would roll out the D9P in June 2008.

The G94, with its official price temporarily set at US$169, features 64 stream processors and supports PureVideo Gen 2, the sources said.

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