Posted 2/21/2008 at 1:26 PM By MondoPest
NVIDIA's next-gen budget graphics card, the 9600GT was released for sale today. The GeForce 9 family are the first DirectX 10.1 cards on the market. The higher-end 9800GTX's release date is not known for sure, but with the release of their budget-minded unit today, it cannot be too far away. More details to come.
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Official Release:
NVIDIA(R) Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce(R) 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company's history. Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU delivers up to 116%(1) more performance than its predecessor at a price below $199.
'After going to all the GeForce LANs and seeing the rigs that gamers play on, we wanted to kick off the GeForce 9 with the perfect GPU for gamers,' said Ujesh Desai, general manager of GeForce desktop GPUs at NVIDIA. 'The first product to be introduced in the GeForce 9 family gives gamers the horsepower to play cutting-edge DirectX 10 games at a price they will love and can afford.'
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