Synthetic Benchmarks

First up, we have a few evergreen synthetic benchmarks comprising of FutureMark's 3DMark 2001, 3DMark 2003 and 3DMark2006.

In 3DMark 2001, the Golden Sample takes a lead owing to it's clockspeed advantage.
it is interesting to note that its "normal" cousin does better than the reference NVIDIA card.

In 3DMark03, the standard BLISS 9600GT seems to have a slight edge over the reference NVIDIA but only very slightly so.

In 06, we see the Golden sample take as much of a lead over the regular 9600GT as it does over the NVIDIA reference card.

Games

To kick off the gaming benchmarks, we have Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tournament 3. Both, fun and playable games that are run at 1920 x 1200 with all settings maxed out to see just how much we can squeeze out of these 9600GT based cards.

In Team Fortress 2, we see both the offerings besting the reference NVIDIA 9600GT.
It appears that Gainward has done a little tweaking on the regular BLISS 9600GT.

In Unreal Tournament 3, the story repeats with the regular 9600GT edging out the NVIDIA reference card by a smidgen.
In both games, the Golden Sample easily offers a close to 10% lead over the "regular" cards.