AMD announced Radeon HD4600 series, and one single 9500GT can not secure the entry market for itself. NVIDIA hurried to roll out it’s “New” 9600GSO to make sense.

New version of GeForce9600GSO is based on G94 core, and the amount of shader reduces to 48 (9600GT has 64SP), but memory interface keeps at 256bit, memory size will be 256MB or 512MB. So we can take it as a shrinked 9600GT. It is sure that the new 9600GSO will have lower performance than G92-9600GSO and 9600GT, but hopefully it can bring its price down.

The card will hit the market at the end of October, but HD 4650 has already reduced its price to 70USD. Even NVIDIA’s magic shrink brings down the price but the new 9600GSO may be still late for the show.