In World in Conflict, the regular BLISS 9600GT seems to have lost its edge but doesn't fare worse either. The Golden Sample takes a 15% lead over the others here.

In Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, it's the same story again with the Golden Sample taking a 10% lead even in OpenGL.

Crysis is has been a very tough nut to crack even for some of the fastest GPUs of today.
All the cards show up with a barely playable average framerate and the Golden Sample still retains its 10% edge.

In all the games, be they DirectX or OpenGL, the Golden Sample has lived up to its namesake and easily offered a 10% - 15% lead over the regular BLISS 9600GT and the NVIDIA reference 9600GT as well. It's also interesting to note that the BLISS 9600GT actually had a slight edge over the reference card despite being clocked at the same speeds. It would appear that Gainward has optimized the BIOS or PCB layout somewhat. Having seen half-height graphics cards perform worse than full-height equivalent, I'm not too surprised that layout of the board can actually affect the performance of the graphics card.