XFX 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition 740M 512mb

Unreal Tournament 3

I have included UT3, even though it is another UE3 game as it is a fast, frantic and furious multiplayer mash-up experience. Using advanced DirectX 9.0c features, the Unreal Engine looks fantastic and runs on almost all half-decent modern GPU’s making it an ideal all-round test.

 

 

Unreal Tournament 3 shows a significant increase in performance across the board with the frames really being boosted by the increased core clock and shader processor speed.

 

 

Crysis

Crysis has to be our most challenging benchmark to date. Running under Windows Vista and using DirectX 10 path, Crysis is currently limited to using “High” settings, rather than “Very High” using any of today’s single cards. I also ramped down the resolution to 1680 x 1050 to make sure that I was happy with the framerates.

 

 

Crysis again showed gains in FPS with the average FPS being higher and feeling quite significantly smoother than the stock 9600 GT.