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Many of his 9600 GSOs were unveiled by Sparkle

He was born out of Sparkle's workshop.

While the general public's attention was drawn to the arrival of the two big guns, the GTX 285 and the GTX 295, Sparkle quietly expanded its over-rich product range with another graphics controller. The SX96SO1024D3 codenamed 9600 GSO sticks out of the field as it differs from GSOs known so far in several respects. The heart of the first-generation 8800 GSO G9600, which became the 92 GS, hid 96 shades, and 384 or 768 MB of GDDR3 memory was connected to the 192-nanometer graphics processor via a 65-bit memory bus. In contrast, the second-generation 9600 GSO a It is based on the 9600 GT G94 - this VGA launched a battle against the ATI Radeon HD 48 with 256 shady, 512-bit memory buses and typically 3 MB of GDDR4670 memory.

Many of his 9600 GSOs were unveiled by Sparkle

Notwithstanding the parameters described above, Sparkle has created its latest 9600 GSO: the 96-tone, 550 MHz graphics core sits on a dark blue printed circuit board in the company of 1GB of GDDR3 memory, covering the not-too-framed cooler. The effective clock speed of VRAM is 1,6 GHz, the memory bus is 128 bits. In terms of outputs, the classic configuration can be reported, with two DVI connectors and a TV output on the metal plate.

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