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Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Atomic 512MB
Fast and furious, but can it deliver on graphics?
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Last reviewed: April 14th
Three hundred and twenty stream processors. Sounds impressive, eh?
Surely, NVIDIA's GeForce 8800GT chipset and its pathetic tally of 112 stream processor can't possibly compete?
Actually it can. But that's mostly because GPU specs are as much spin as they are solemn sermon.
Effective cooling
In truth, the HD 3800 family is 64 extremely powerful five-way shader units. But then 64 doesn't sound as sexy as 320. So, 320 it is.
Marketing spiel aside, Sapphire's new Atomic cooling solution certainly delivers. This is the fastest stock-clocked HD 3870 in town, but it still has a little left for overclockers.
That's quite an achievement given that this slim single-slot 3870 is up against the dual-slot cooler of the AMD reference design.
Product Summary
Radeon HD 3870 Atomic 512MB
Price at launch
£191.99
Key specs
Price at Launch | MPN | OS Requirements | Interface |
For
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Strong performance; Effective cooling system
Against
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Not much for overclockers here
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