Windows Vista gaming and graphics ratings for the most popular video cards
Windows Vista has introduced a new way of rating the speed and capabilities of video cards. It does so by a program called WinSAT, which benchmarks your PC's most important parts and gives each part a score (also called a Windows Experience Index), usually between 1 and 6, with 6 being the best and 1 being the lowest.
For video cards, Vista computes 2 ratings:
Gaming rating - this refers to your video board's ability of running the latest games in very high quality and with the highest frame rate.
Graphics rating - this refers to the ability of Windows Vista to run its Aero user interface (which includes transparent window borders) at high speed.
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
| Video memory | 128 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 5.00 | between 2.00 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.50 | between 2.30 ... 4.70 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 5.00 | between 4.30 ... 5.30 |
| Gaming rating | 3.60 | between 0.00 ... 4.50 |
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RADEON X700 PRO
also known as:
RADEON X700 Series, MEDION RADEON X740XL
| Video memory | 128 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 5.00 | between 4.90 ... 5.00 |
| Gaming rating | 3.30 | between 0.00 ... 4.50 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.00 ... 4.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.90 | between 4.70 ... 6.20 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.20 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.40 | between 0.00 ... 6.40 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.70 ... 5.30 |
| Gaming rating | 5.40 | between 0.00 ... 6.30 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT [Custom Forceware 180.43]
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.00 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.30 | between 4.90 ... 5.30 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.10 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.30 | between 3.00 ... 5.90 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.10 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.20 | between 3.00 ... 5.90 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
also known as:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.20 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.10 | between 4.00 ... 5.60 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS [Custom Forceware 180.44]
also known as:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS, NVIDIA NB8P-SE, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS [Custom Forceware 178.24]
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.30 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.10 | between 3.50 ... 5.50 |
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ASUS EAH4550 series
also known as:
ATI Radeon HD 4550, ATI Radeon HD 4500 Series
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.70 ... 5.30 |
| Gaming rating | 5.10 | between 0.00 ... 6.30 |
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ASUS EAH4550 series
also known as:
ATI Radeon HD 4550
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.20 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.00 | between 2.80 ... 5.50 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.20 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.00 | between 0.00 ... 6.40 |
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ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600
also known as:
M76M
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.40 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.90 | between 3.80 ... 5.90 |
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ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
also known as:
ASUS EAH2600 Series
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 2.40 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.90 | between 3.00 ... 5.30 |
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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.70 ... 5.00 |
| Gaming rating | 4.80 | between 4.70 ... 4.80 |
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
also known as:
M76M
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.40 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.80 | between 4.20 ... 5.90 |
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ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
also known as:
ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series, Qimonda Radeon HD 2600 PRO
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.50 ... 5.50 |
| Gaming rating | 4.70 | between 0.00 ... 6.20 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
also known as:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.60 ... 5.40 |
| Gaming rating | 4.70 | between 0.00 ... 5.70 |
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RADEON X700 PRO
also known as:
RADEON X700 Series
| Video memory | 128 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.60 ... 5.10 |
| Gaming rating | 4.60 | between 4.50 ... 4.60 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.80 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.60 | between 4.30 ... 5.20 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
also known as:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 2.00 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 4.30 | between 0.00 ... 6.00 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
also known as:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 4.70 ... 5.20 |
| Gaming rating | 4.30 | between 0.00 ... 5.70 |
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Radeon X1650 Series
| Video memory | 256 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 3.30 ... 5.60 |
| Gaming rating | 3.80 | between 0.00 ... 4.90 |
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RADEON 9700 PRO
| Video memory | 128 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.90 | between 2.90 ... 5.10 |
| Gaming rating | 3.00 | between 0.00 ... 4.20 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
also known as:
Standard-VGA-Grafikkarte, NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.80 | between 2.20 ... 5.20 |
| Gaming rating | 5.30 | between 0.00 ... 6.30 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
| Video memory | 512 MB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.80 | between 3.10 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.20 | between 3.00 ... 5.80 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
also known as:
WinFast PX9500 GT
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.80 | between 2.10 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.20 | between 2.30 ... 5.90 |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
| Video memory | 1 GB | |
| Graphics rating | 4.80 | between 2.50 ... 5.90 |
| Gaming rating | 5.10 | between 3.00 ... 5.90 |
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