With the success of the HD-4000 series in the graphics solution with the flagship beating every test in GPU power house in every floor being beaten by good and only the best scores ever been made in a non- SLI or crossfire configuration physically with enough memory buffer to hold enough games like Far-cry 2 and also Crysis in very high resolution and also detail and AAF supported. But the previous HD3000 series is a great star over for the ATI radeon to make up with the bad thing happening in the previous and also the previous HD2000 series with the unexceptional power supply and also heat produced.
But the mainstream HD-3850 is the better option form the NVIDIA card 8800GT for the prize and performance ratio, being that you can able to buy this about $200 with enough grunt to play say, supreme commander in O.K detail. (Just being a bench for most mainstream performance cards from both the NVIDIA and ATI. But now consumers already threw their old wary card in the bin because they don’t give enough power and pixel pumping action anymore and the new games make these once powerful card form the early 2008 obsolete or just plain I want something better than my neighbours kind of thinking. But the HD3850 is a dead card for now but it is capable to play most HD movies and encoding in most movies and play some VLC movies and clips or just run low powered PC’s for your kids rather than playing your big men’s toy with a six pack water-cooled kit and has a pair of 4870X2 guns to throw any competition to its knees.
But the HD 3850 from any product made, Sapphire or HIS, build some passive cooled 3850 with a stock core made form 55nm fabrication process and also the older GDDR3 memory with 512MB memory buffer with about 600MHz core frequency or even better over-clocked versions and just a shy about 1.9Ghz effective memory frequency cycle just enough memory bandwidth of half space to the HD 4870 with the same 512MB space.
The performance of the card is just enough to play most DX9.0c games with relative ease and some of the game that we liked before the half life 2 lost coast went 64fsp in average frames with about the max resolution in the specified monitors or just a 30in monitor from Dell. But being a DX10 specified card it cannot play Crysis in their recommended 30fsp average in high or even in medium detail settings, so age really let this card down and able to tackle most task in GPU pretty fine but the highlight in every card is to play the big boys but this can’t. So for the record, is you are buying these better buy this for the kids or just recklessly and without knowing and then complain the shop for your incompetents.
