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ATI Radeon HD 3850
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ATI has taken interesting measures to re-invent its mid range graphics cards. Just like its older brothers, the ATI Radeon HD 3850 has 3520 stream processors, which is technically a far cry from the 96+ shaders present in the higher end of the GeForce 8000 series. Although it runs at speed lower than the GeForce 8000 series, the 320 stream processors do allow the ATI Radeon HD 3850 to have potentially better parallel processing, provided that games and drivers are optimized for it. Other changes include support for PCI Express 2.0 (PCI-E 2.0) standard. The ATI Radeon HD 3850 supports DirectX 10.1, the Microsoft’s gaming application programming interface (API), which further improves on existing standards by tinkering with peripheral effects such as blending functions.
ATI Radeon HD 3850 also supports the new CrossFire X standard, which allows four CrossFire ready cards to be up and running on compatible motherboards.
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Futuremark’s synthetic benchmark is a good proxy for performance potential in most cutting edge games. The ATI Radeon HD 3850 and ATI Radeon HD 3870 are close to the 8800 GT’s performance, which speaks volumes of the potential horsepower packed with in the graphic cards.
Conclusion
The ATI Radeon HD 3850 is a capable card, which can stand on even ground with more expensive cards present by both ATI and Nvidia. Although it is not designed to break performance barriers, it does provide competitive performance across the board. Furthermore the CrossFire X support gives great future proofing for the budget customer. The MAQTECH conclude that a ATI Radeon HD 3850 purchase will mot disappoint.
The Overview
Core Clock: 668 MHz
Memory Clock: 1650 MHz
Memory Size: 256 MB GDDR3
Memory Bus: 256 bit
Stream Processors: 320
API Support: Direct X 10.1, OpenGL 2.0+
CrossFire Ready: yes
Interface: PCI-E x 16 (2.0 Supported)
Output: DVI, HDMI, VGA
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7 Responses to “ATI Radeon HD 3850”
19 May 2011 at 06:16
This is an excellent video card. ATI rocks! The performance of ATI video cards are the same with Nvidia but ATI is cheaper.
20 May 2011 at 11:16
Awesome, great to see the above products, thanks for sharing the above information.
6 June 2011 at 04:33
No doubt ATI is in it to sell it! The ATI Radeon HD 3850 as mentioned is not to break barriers but not support experience; I think it what matters most.
6 June 2011 at 09:28
ATI all the way!
5 July 2011 at 11:13
ATI is the best. Graphics card is too high definition. Thanks for sharing such a great information.
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4 February 2013 at 20:28
I have been searching the internet for this, and I am glad I found it here! Thanks.
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