Crysis is probably the defacto benchmark game since almost no currently sold card can have acceptable frame rates, especially with very high quality settings enabled.

All tested graphic cards can have acceptable frame rates at 1280x1024 under high quality settings. The Gainward Bliss 9600GSO gave an average of 27 FPS, higher than several 9600GT cards, but lower than the Gainward 9600GT 1024GS and Asus 9600GT Top.

Enabling the very high quality settings has a significant impact (over 50%) on the performance of all the tested graphic cards. The Gainward Bliss 9600GSO gave 11FPS, matching the performance of two 9600GT-based cards.

Pushing resolutions even higher at 1680x1050 and 19200x1200 and setting the quality settings to High did not allow us to play the game. The Gainward Bliss 9600GSO gave around 9 FPS.