9600GT or 9600GSO

[spdfreak]

I can use either of these cards and I'm wondering if there is a clear winner... if I remember correctly, it was kind of a toss up when they were both on the market. the GT is a 512MB card and the GSO is a 384MB card. I play mostly older games (orange box, COD world at war, etc) and not very often at that.

 

[Annisman*]

I think the GT was better than the GSO, but both cards will probably perform about the same. I am sure there will be many telling you to ditch both cards and upgrade.

 

[toyota]

its still a toss up as neither is any more sufficient than the other to run newer more demanding games. 384mb of vram will hurt you more today than it would have when these cards where new though. of course that will depend on the game, settings and res.

 

[blanketyblank]

I remember there were 9600 GSOs that was unlocakable to a 9800 GT. If you had one of those it would crush the 9600 GT though by today's standards it would be roughly between a GTS 240 and GTS 250.

 

[evolucion8]

While the 9600GT performed so close to the 8800GT, the 9600GSO unlocked, would still faster than the 9600GT and would perform unlocked at stock speeds like a 9800GT, overclocked would match a 9800GTX which is nice, about 30% more performance, sometimes higher, but the 9600GT consumes so little power....

 

[djdynamite123]

9600GT overclocked is the best option.

 

[bubapapua]

GeForce 9600 GT has 64 Stream Processors, 650 MHz core clock, with a 1625 MHz unified shader clock, and 1008 MHz memory, 2016 MHz data rate, with a 256-bit memory interface. While the GeForce 9600 GSO only has 96 stream processors, a 550 MHz core clock with shaders clocked at 1,375 MHz, and 384MB memory clocked at 800 MHz on a 192-bit memory bus (more information can be read via Wikipedia).

When running a game, core clock, shader clock, and also memory bus / interface plays a more important than just stream processors and memory size. So, I think the GeForce 9600 GT is a better choice.

 

[Annisman*]

If I recall, most of the GSO cards were not unlockable, only some were, that came with extra V-RAM that weren't being used.

 

[spdfreak]

Thanks for the replies- I ended up using the GT since it is also more efficient and only uses one slot compared to 2 for the GSO- which makes a big difference on the mATX board I'm using. I'll probably just sell the GSO with my old Q6600 stuff on ebay.