9600GT is the mid end card of the GeForce 9 Series and it kicks the Radeon 3850 as well as the 8600GT / GTS in any regular benchmark ... while still beeing cheaper than all of them.
Don't understand why all rant against it.
Sure the 9800GT / GTX will be better but will cost 400-600 USD again.
if you are looking for a medium ranged affordable card, go with the 9600GT from NVIDIA if you are pro NVIDIA or the Radeon 3850 if you are pro ATI / AMD
they both share the best performance / USD ratio at the moment and are higher on that than the previous generations have been
And yes it would do something massively different with DX10: DX9 games are, due to the ways dx9 works, a little bit less relying on the pure amount of shader units. But DX10 is enforced pure shader. So the 16 stream units of the 8400GT make it a bad joke for 3D ... even higher featured terrain system already needs more than 16 stream units
they are nice for h.264 decoding and CUDA ... but thats it.
Don't understand why all rant against it.
Sure the 9800GT / GTX will be better but will cost 400-600 USD again.
if you are looking for a medium ranged affordable card, go with the 9600GT from NVIDIA if you are pro NVIDIA or the Radeon 3850 if you are pro ATI / AMD
they both share the best performance / USD ratio at the moment and are higher on that than the previous generations have been
And yes it would do something massively different with DX10: DX9 games are, due to the ways dx9 works, a little bit less relying on the pure amount of shader units. But DX10 is enforced pure shader. So the 16 stream units of the 8400GT make it a bad joke for 3D ... even higher featured terrain system already needs more than 16 stream units
they are nice for h.264 decoding and CUDA ... but thats it.