Crysis is probably the defacto benchmark game since almost none currently available card can offer acceptable frame rates when very high quality settings are selected. All three 9600GT cards can have acceptable frame rates at 1280x1024 with high quality settings. The Gainward 9600GT 1024 GS offers higher frame rates compared to its competitors. This is approximately 4FPS higher on both average and max values.

Enabling the very high quality settings has a impact (over 50%) on the performance of all tested 9600GT cards. The Gainward 9600GT 1024GS still has a lead due to its higher onboard memory and higher shader clocks.

Pushing resolutions even higher at 1680x1050 and 19200x1200 showed us that the specific game was practically not playable: