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Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 1GB

1GB of memory for a very attractive price

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Last reviewed: April 13th

Its huge memory buffer offers a modicum of future-proofing

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From the sub-prime to the ridiculous.

That was our instinctive feeling when we realised that Asus' 256MB 8800 GT board was priced to compete with a 1GB card, the HD 3850.

Impressive memory

But as conventional thinking on graphics memory is outdated, we must recalibrate our attitudes towards affordable boards with mega memory counts for this AMD-powered Sapphire card.

Tons of memory isn't a marketing ruse anymore, the latest PC games are data-intensive. If you don't have enough memory, you'll dip into system RAM and that's a recipe for tragic 3D performance.

But not here. Despite the low price Sapphire has managed to fit decent GDDR3 chips with plenty of overclocking headroom.

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Features ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Platform, 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
Connectivity DVI, HDMI
Software Provided ATI PowerPlay
API Support New DirectX 10
ATI Description Yes
Graphics Core Clockspeed 668
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express
Graphics Memory (Mb) 256
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 1.65
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
Shader Support Shader Model 4.1
GPU ATI
HDMI Ports 1

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Radeon HD 3850 1GB

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Massive amount of memory; Future proof; Fair price

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