Reviews

Gamersdepot.com
”It’s great to see budget-conscious gamers having a sweet-spot nicely filled by hardware that is a nice evolutionary step in the right direction of better performance.”
Duane Pemberton

Hardocp.com
“The Radeon™ 9600 XT is poised to throne itself king of the mainstream market.”
Brent Justice

“After testing the ATI Radeon™ 9600 XT and playing many games with the card, there is no question that it is the fastest mainstream video card on the market and delivers excellent Image Quality while it's speeding along.”
Brent Justice

“The ATI Radeon™ 9600 XT is currently the best mainstream card you can buy.”
Brent Justice

“Kudos to ATI for offering up more "Must Have [Hardware]".
Brent Justice

“The Radeon™ 9600 XT is the first graphics core to use the Low k process for .13. This means ATI is doing very well with .13 and making very big strides in its use.”
Brent Justice

“At $199 that is a very appealing offer for many.”
Brent Justice

“People that buy the Radeon™ 9600 XT will not only get a great new game, but they will be able to play this game in all its DirectX®9 glory with great performance.”
Brent Justice

“If you are not playing Half-Life® 2 on an ATI Radeon™ 9800 XT or ATI Radeon™ 9600 XT, you will likely be missing out on the best gaming experience you can have this year. It’s like a perfect marriage of hardware and software.”
Brent Justice

HotHardware.com
“It just might be the best performance to price ratio video card that we have seen in the labs in some time.”
Robert Maloney

“By releasing the Radeon™ 9600 XT and Radeon™ 9800 XT in conjunction with the Catalyst 3.8 drivers, ATI is making a statement that they have no intentions on letting their momentum slip. “
Robert Maloney

“Based on what we've seen in the benchmarks and relation to the price point, and the powerful additions provided by the Catalyst 3.8 drivers, we're giving the ATI Radeon™ 9600 XT a 9.5 on the HotHardware Heat Meter, and, like its big brother, an Editor's Choice Award.”
Robert Malone

“This card is shaping up to be a VERY impressive mid range solution and could well make much more of a splash”
Dave Altavilla

“Additionally, the Radeon™ 9600 XT introduces yet another milestone in Graphics Processor design, with TSMC's "Low K " .13 micron process driving cores clock speeds up and power consumption down.”
Dave Altavilla

“From a price / performance perspective, the real sweet spot in ATI's product line-up, will be either the Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB cards or the upcoming impressive looking Radeon™ 9600 XT.”
Dave Altavilla

Neoseeker.com
“Yummy news for silent PC enthusiasts indeed.”
Andy Zen

Techreport.com
“The Radeon™ 9600 XT improves upon the Radeon˜™ 9600 PRO's already impressive pixel shader performance by a small margin, but the XT really shines in vertex shader performance.”
Geoff Gaisor

"The results of our performance testing are clear. The Radeon™ 9600 XT improves on the Radeon˜™ 9600 PRO's s already impressive performance in a wide variety of benchmarks and real-world applications, including titles that take advantage of DirectX 9-class pixel and vertex shaders and floating point data types.”
Geoff Gaisor

“At the end of the day, I think I'm more excited about the Radeon™ 9600 XT than I've been about any other graphics card.”
Geoff Gaisor

“All things considered, it would almost be irresponsible for me to not give the Radeon™ 9600 XT our coveted Editor's Choice award for mid-range PC graphics. Today, the Radeon™ 9600 XT is as good as mid-range graphics gets.”
Geoff Gaisor