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PALIT Geforce 9600GSO Sonic
Lightsmark
Realtime global illumination
Natural lighting makes artificial graphics life-like. Computers get faster, but rendering more polygons doesn't add value if lighting looks faked, so insiders know that the next big thing is proper lighting aka Realtime Global Illumination. Typical workloads in realtime rendering will shift. Lightsmark simulates it. Global Illumination renders often take hours. Is your computer fast enough for realtime?
Before Lightsmark, real time global illumination was limited to small scenes, small resolutions, small speeds, specially crafted scenes with handmade optimizations. Lightsmark breaks all limits at once, running in reasonably sized scene (220000 triangles) in high resolution (1680x1050) at excellent speed (100-400fps). Lighting is computed fully automatically in original unmodified scene from 2007 game World of Padman, not tweaked for Lightsmark and with all sorts of geometrical difficulties, with extra rooms hidden below floor etc.
The result on left is 9600GSO at factory defaults. The one on right is the 9600GSO over clocked.
The result from our benchmark of the 9600GSO was a very respectable score of 199.7 without over clocking the graphics card. Over clocking the card to our stable 750MHz core, 1000MHz Memory, 1700MHz Shaders resulted in 200.3 a mere point five marks difference. This difference is very small when it comes to the over all picture and shows that even with over clocking a GPU for more frames per second, the light shading is not improved more than half a mark. So running the 9600GSO at a standard setting as apposed to over clocked, the user will not lose light rendering quality.
Vista Score:
The Microsoft Operating System of Vista comes with it own scoring system to assist users with determining if their system is adequate enough to run specific software. Vista gave this rig a 5.4 score. This is a respectable score for today’s computer system of course at the time of this posting 5.4 is respectable, but in a few months or a year’s time, we will have wait and see.
Real Time Pricing: