Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 Reviews

AMD's Radeon HD 3850 Series has been on the market for a while now. Add-in-Board Partners are constantly looking for ways to seperate themselves from the competition and that's why Sapphire has engineered a Radeon HD 3850 with 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory ...

10% faster, Bragging rights, Nice overclocking headroom, HDMI+HDCP+Audio, Low temperatures, PCI-Express 2.0 support, Single slot design

Quadrupling memory size yields only about 10% extra performance, Worse price/performance ratio than HD 3850 256 MB, Noisy

Overall the combination of 5% faster core clock and 768 MB of additional memory can yield a performance improvement of about 10% when comparing Sapphire's HD 3850 1 GB to the HD 3850 with 256 MB. In my opinion this is not worth the price premium of ...

The HD 3850 offers good bang for buck as it stands. We see if this passive version from Sapphire warrants a higher cost.

Sapphire has done a good job with the HD 3850 and it clearly is deserving of the Ultimate name that it carries. The overclocked offering does give it a boost in performance at some stages, and not so much at others. There's no doubt that there are a ...

Proof that AGP is far from dead

Sapphire has used a single-slot cooler on the HD3850 AGP, with a passive heatsink over the power regulators. The AGP bus can't supply the voltage required by the RV670 core (this uses a eight-pin PCI Express power connector), although a six-pin cable ...