Powercolor HD 3850 Xtreme 512 MB @ techPowerUp

**MIG-31** · Dec 7, 2007, 08:58 AM

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Recently AMD has released their new RV670 GPU which is used on their HD3850 and HD3870 cards. We recently reviewed an overclocked card from GeCube, today we have PowerColor's go at making a card that outperforms the reference design.

The RV670 GPU is based on the RV610 and RV630 architecture, but features much better performance. It is built on a 55nm process with 666 million transistors with a 256 bit memory interface. All features like UVD and HDMI+Audio are included as well. As a novelty this chip brings DirectX 10.1 support and can benefit from the improved features of PCI-Express 2.0. While both features are not important today they are a clear commitment from AMD that they are looking at future technologies and will make use of them as soon as possible.

Dec 7, 2007, 08:58 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,821 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Powercolor HD 3850 Xtreme 512 MB @ techPowerUp Review: techPowerUp _______________ Recently AMD has released their new RV670 GPU which is used on their HD3850 and HD3870 cards. We recently reviewed an overclocked card from GeCube, today we have PowerColor's go at making a card that outperforms the reference design. The RV670 GPU is based on the RV610 and RV630 architecture, but features much better performance. It is built on a 55nm process with 666 million transistors with a 256 bit memory interface. All features like UVD and HDMI+Audio are included as well. As a novelty this chip brings DirectX 10.1 support and can benefit from the improved features of PCI-Express 2.0. While both features are not important today they are a clear commitment from AMD that they are looking at future technologies and will make use of them as soon as possible. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here