“ATI’s new 55nm GPU, the RV670 hits the streets today and we take a look at the lesser Radeon HD 3850 in the form of a special, overclocked version from PowerColor featuring a third party cooler. Can it shake up the mid-range graphics segment like NVIDIA’s recent GeForce 8800 GT? Find out inside.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- ASUS Extreme Radeon HD 3870 @ Techspot
- Sapphire HD 3850 Review @ OCC
- Radeon HD 3850 Review in SLI @ Boot Daily
- Powercolor HD3850 Extreme PCS – AMD 3850 Performance explored @ Overclock3D
- PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 Xtreme Edition Preview @ MVKTech
- Zalman CNPS8000 CPU & VF900-Cu GPU Cooler @ PCApex
Pushing the clock speed up on the 3850
Hardware Zone had a chance to look at the PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 Xtreme 512MB with clock speeds pushed up to 720MHz and 1800MHz DDR from 670 and 1660, as well as having double the GRAM. You can see how well this does at pushing the performance beyond the 8800GTS and giving the 8800GT a run for it’s money. Nice to see AMD back in the running again.