Testing will today be done with the following games and software; Crysis, Call of Duty 4, 3dmark2006, and X3 Reunion. Temperatures are taking while idling in windows and full temperatures are taken after looping 3dmark2006. Ambient temperature was 21 celsius at the time of testing. As operating system we used Windows Vista with the latest updates.
3dmark2006:
We looped 3dmark 2006 at standard settings and we got the following results, the 9600Gt performs between the 8800Gt and 3850.
3dmark2006 Anti Aliasing:
Anti Aliasing really demands alot from your videocard and we can see that all the cards drop in performance except the 8800GT. The 9600Gt still performs better than the 3850 actually does.
Crysis:
All the cards perform quite similar in Crysis but at higher resolutions the 8800GT outperforms the others. THe 3850 did not lag though even though it had the lowest FPS.