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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
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Page 1 of 4  One could say that AMD finally got bored with dragging its offer and decided to finally do some decent work with the new models. Here we have a completely new card, destined to impress both the press and the market.
The market situation seems to get better and better as far as end-users are concerned. When we first received the GeForce 8600 and Radeon HD 2600 cards, the basic criticism was drawn to the 128-bit bus, which we thought was too narrow and made a distinction between the mid-range and upper-range cards too obvious. The gap was simply too great. If we take a look at the situation one month ago, we can see that the difference in price between the 8600GTS and the 8800GTS (320 MB model), for example, was an entire 90€.
The 7 series (or its X1000 counterpart) didn't seem to have these price range problems, with models appearing on occasion which would fill in the gaps. This time, the market situation remained unchanged for nearly a year. Well, for all those who were waiting for the optimal model, it's time to rejoice.
| Specs | AMD Radeon HD3850 | AMD Radeon HD3870 | | GPU | RV670 | RV670 | | Interface | PCI-E 2.0 | PCI-E 2.0 | | Core Clock (MHz) | 668 | 775 | | Shader Clock(MHz) | 668 | 775 | | Stream Processors | 320 | 320 | | Process (nm) | 55 | 55 | | Texture Units | 16 | 16 | | Raster Operators | 16 | 16 | | Shader Operations (Operations/sec) | 213760 | 248000 | | Texture Fillrate (MPix/sec) | 10688 | 12400 | | Pixel Fillrate (MPix/sec) | 10688 | 12400 | | Memory Size | 256MB, 512MB | 512MB | | Memory Clock (MHz) | 1656 | 2250 | | Memory Bandwidith (GB/s) | 53 | 72 | | Memory Type | GDDR3 | GDDR4 |
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