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Sapphire does 1GB HD 3850

by on18 February 2008

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GDDR3 memory on board

 

Sapphire has announced yet another HD 3850 card, this time with 1GB of memory. Sapphire has decided to go for GDDR3 memory clocked at reference 829MHz (1.66GHz effective).

This card's memory isn't the only thing that had a slight bump, as the core clock has been pushed to 703MHz. Unlike the reference version that uses a reference red PCB and reference cooling, this new card from Sapphire comes with Sapphire's blue PCB. It also uses Sapphire's own cooling system that has a larger fan but keeps the single slot design, and which should be equal or maybe even better than reference cooling at much lower noise level because of the larger fan.

The new HD 3850 card from Sapphire has a 256-bit memory interface, has a 6-pin PCIe power connector, two dual-link DVI's with HDMI over DVI-HDMI adapter and support for ATI CrossfireX. Since we are talking about the single slot card it would be nice to see four of these cards working in CrossfireX; that's 4GB of GDDR3 graphics memory, if anyobody needs that much.

Additional 512MB of GDDR3 unfortunately comes with a higher price tag of €195.39, which is cureently the lowest priced one we could find, and it is still not available.

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Last modified on 20 February 2008
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