SAPPHIRE & Powercolor Launches 1GB HD 3850

[mascaras]

SAPPHIRE Launches 1GB HD 3850

SAPPHIRE Technology, industry leader in graphics upgrades for the PC, has just launched a new version of its successful HD 3850 with enhanced memory configuration of 1GB.

The new SAPPHIRE HD 3850 has 1GB of GDDR3 memory, running at 829MHz (1.66GHz effective). It has a core clock speed of 703MHz, higher than the standard model, which together with the large onboard memory delivers exciting levels of graphics performance especially in games or applications where large volumes of texture or data are involved.

The SAPPHIRE HD 3850 series incorporates the latest ATI Avivo HD Technology for enhanced Video display and features a built in UVD (Unified Video decoder) for the hardware accelerated decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD content for both VC-1 and H.264 codecs, reducing CPU loading to a minimum. The HDMI adaptor delivers true audio and video output on a single cable for direct connection of an HDMI ready display, making the SAPPHIRE HD 3850 an ideal solution for gamers and video enthusiasts.

Featuring the latest CrossFireX technology, the SAPPHIRE HD 3850 has two high speed connectors on each card allowing 2, 3 or even 4 graphics cards to be daisy-chained together for enhanced performance when installed in a CrossFireX mainboard. As each card has two dual-link DVI connectors, this allows up to eight monitors to be used at the same time, or - with CrossFire enabled - two GPU’s (and up to four with future driver releases) to provide a more powerful rendering solution.

All the new SAPPHIRE HD 3800 series combine a powerful unified shader architecture with support for Shader Model 4.0 and the forthcoming DirectX 10.1 connected via the latest PCI-Express Gen 2.0 interface. The architecture shares the 320 stream processors and 512-bit internal ring bus memory controller of the company’s other high end models together with multiple rendering units and a programmable tessellation unit to deliver outstanding graphics performance. Now manufactured in a new 55nm process technology, the GPU in the HD 3000 series delivers this performance with lower power consumption and at lower cost than previous generations. A new feature known as ATI PowerPlay actively reduces power consumption depending on loading.

SAPPHIRE HD 3000 series graphics cards are Microsoft Windows Vista Premium certified and supported by the ATI Catalyst suite of software, ensuring customers have ongoing access to software updates for performance, stability and added features. Support for DirectX10.1 provides developers with access to enhanced programming techniques and new lighting effects.

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http://www.techpowerup.com/51914/SAP...B_HD_3850.html

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[railmeat]

how does it fair in hi res(1600x1200+) vs 8800gt\gtx..thats the question

1 gig of ram with 256 interface seems odd?

[STaRGaZeR]

how does it fair in hi res(1600x1200+) vs 8800gt\gtx..thats the question

1 gig of ram with 256 interface seems odd?

Are you comparing a HD3850 with a 8800GTX?

[KoHaN69]

Why not 3870 1GB?
Is it because of GDDR3?

[MpG]

Going to 1 GB from 512 MB didn't do jack for the 8800GT. I can't believe it'll be much different for this card.

[Zytek_Fan]

256MB to 512MB helps the 3850, but yes 512MB to 1GB isn't going to do anything.

[mascaras]

also Powercolor HD3850 1GB PCS

Qimonda GDDR3 memory with 1Gb densities can also work at 900MHz and therefore we expect some good overclocking .



Fudzilla

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[Starscream]

256MB to 512MB helps the 3850, but yes 512MB to 1GB isn't going to do anything.

wel it helps with the e-penis and i bet people that dont know jack about hardware will think that this card will be uber and will buy it and then will go around insulting people with 3870s and geforce 8800Gts that only have 512MB.

This card will be bought by the same people that buy the geforce 8500GT, 2600XT etc that all got 1GB of ram.
utterly useles ont hose cards but the people that buy them wont know any better.

[Zytek_Fan]

wel it helps with the e-penis and i bet people that dont know jack about hardware will think that this card will be uber and will buy it and then will go around insulting people with 3870s and geforce 8800Gts that only have 512MB.

This card will be bought by the same people that buy the geforce 8500GT, 2600XT etc that all got 1GB of ram.
utterly useles ont hose cards but the people that buy them wont know any better.

Remember? Higher number always = better

[krogen]

Well, if someone makes a 1GB texture pack for Oblivion then MAYBE the 1GB of memory will show improvement :P (Qarl comes to mind...)

[cozwin]

Remember? Higher number always = better

lol yer please somone tell the graphics companies to not do this, as weve all seen lately.tdp and powerusage the better the better? lol.

[cegras]

256 bit bus with 1 gb memory? Hum, where have I seen this before?

Oh yeah, the 8800 GT 1 gb.

[Gambit_2K]

But with Crysis @ 1680*1050 and 4xAA and 8xAF doesn't the videomemory usage go above 600 mb? Shouldn't the 1 Gig memory help then? Or is the game completely unplayable at those settings?

[OBR]

absolutely useless card ... slow and cheap 1GB ... on mid-stream card ...

[MERC!]

2 of these work well for me! Its not about bragging rights or anything like that. Needed the extra memory for Auto-Cad and didnt want to spend 1500.00 on a work station VPU. Extremely large CAD files makes good use of 2 gigs total. Good gamming comes as a plus.. Runs everything on high with no probs. 3dmark06 hits 12000 something with one card with AMD overdrive and 21000 something with 2 with amd overdrive. Not bad. Not the best but not bad! WORKS FER ME! NewEGG has me listed as buyer of this if you think im blowing hot air.

[G.Foyle]

wow 3 month bump...

[BrowncoatGR]

More useless graphics cards... sigh
unfurtunatly there's obviously enough ppl that get tricked into buying this crap

2 of these work well for me! Its not about bragging rights or anything like that. Needed the extra memory for Auto-Cad and didnt want to spend 1500.00 on a work station VPU. Extremely large CAD files makes good use of 2 gigs total. Good gamming comes as a plus.. Runs everything on high with no probs. 3dmark06 hits 12000 something with one card with AMD overdrive and 21000 something with 2 with amd overdrive. Not bad. Not the best but not bad! WORKS FER ME! NewEGG has me listed as buyer of this if you think im blowing hot air.

Are you using FireGL drivers or do the normal Catalyst drivers work well with AutoCAD?

[Papu]

i found normal drivers work fine for it , but normal nvidia drivers are almost unuseable

[ToTTenTranz]

1Gb HD3850 cards make perfect sense for double, triple and quad-crossfire systems, because 1Gb is the total ammount of memory the graphics system will have at its disposal. For a single-card configuration I think it's not worth it. That GPU alone can't push 1Gb of textures and be fast at it.

And, for that matter, I think there should be HD3870X2s with 2Gb.

[AliG]

Going to 1 GB from 512 MB didn't do jack for the 8800GT. I can't believe it'll be much different for this card.

not quite true, the 1gb of memory has shown to have made a huge difference in a lot of dx10 games, especially with crysis, once you crank up the aa/details

[bf2142lol]

what a waste of ram right there. Your paying for memory that card cant properly use. reminds me of my friend who owns a 512mb 7600gs....Feel sorry for those people.

[STEvil]

anyone remember the 8800GT 256/512/1024 reviews? 1024 didnt perform worse than 512 by much if at all and in some instances killed the 512 cards. The 256 cards just sucked huge.

[[XC] gomeler]

what a waste of ram right there. Your paying for memory that card cant properly use. reminds me of my friend who owns a 512mb 7600gs....Feel sorry for those people.

Are you implying that the HD3850 is bus limited? I think it would do just fine with 1024MB of ram although I don't think it's necessary unless you are gaming at 24" or larger. 2 of those cards in CrossFire would do pretty well @ 24" or 30" I imagine.

[MayDay84]

But with Crysis @ 1680*1050 and 4xAA and 8xAF doesn't the videomemory usage go above 600 mb? Shouldn't the 1 Gig memory help then? Or is the game completely unplayable at those settings?

It might go yes, but the fact is that the 256-bit memory bus CANNOT feed this amount of memory!

anyone remember the 8800GT 256/512/1024 reviews? 1024 didnt perform worse than 512 by much if at all and in some instances killed the 512 cards. The 256 cards just sucked huge.

In fact, it went this way: http://en.expreview.com/2007/12/30/r...7;EF%BC%9F/16/
1GB version was better on 4/13 game tests..