Card Comparison and Testing Setup
The Galaxy 9600 GT LP actually runs at slightly lower clock speeds than the reference 9600 GT GPU from all that time ago; this was a necessary move for Galaxy to be able to fit the card into a smaller form factor and remove the 6-pin PCIe power requirement.

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You can see the core clock is 50 MHz lower while the shader clock is a full 125 MHz slower than the reference speeds we listed on the first page.  This of course indicates that performance will be a bit slower than standard 9600 GTs though it still will be comparable. 

For our benchmarking comparisons we pitted the Galaxy 9600 GT LP against a similarly-priced AMD product, the Radeon HD 4670 512MB. 

Test System Setup

CPU

Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz

Motherboards

ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 + nForce 200

Memory 

 Corsair 3 x 2GB DDR3-1600

Hard Drive

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB

Sound Card

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value

Video Card

 Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT LP 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4670 512MB

Video Drivers

 NVIDIA: 185.85
AMD: Catalyst 9.4
Power Supply PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200w

DirectX Version

DX10 / DX9c

Operating System

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Our thanks go out to Corsair for the memory for our test bed, to PC Power and Cooling for the 1200w beast of a PSU for the system and to ASUS for the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard.
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