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AMD unleashes ATI Radeon 3800 series

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Kody

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Incredible performance per watt and scalability with never before seen price points put enthusiast-class gaming in reach of all users

This morning AMD unveiled their latest graphics processor with the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series. The processor's innovative 55nm process technology is the first to deliver support for DirectX 10.1, along with support for tri and quad multi-GPUs through ATI CrossFireX. AMD hopes to usher in a new era of enthusiast gaming performance for the mainstream with the series.

"With the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series we are redefining the market for enthusiast graphics with a new class of price, performance and features that have never been seen before in this industry," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Product Group, AMD.

At an entry-point of just $179 MSRP for the ATI Radeon HD 3850 -- the lower end model with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and $219 MSRP for the ATI Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory -- AMD's hopes may come true.

"Through a flawless transition to 55nm and Microsoft DirectX® 10.1, we can deliver an unprecedented level of scalable performance, image quality enhancements and power efficiency at the sub- $200 segment that rivals today's most expensive graphics processors and opens up enthusiast gaming to more end users than ever before."

This is just the first step for AMD as they hope to redefine the enthusiast gamer market -- not only through these new offerings -- but their upcoming enthusiast platform codenamed "Spider," as well.

To read more about the ATI Radeon 3800 series, head over to the press release or drop by the AMD ATI Radeon 3800 series page on AMD's website to find out how to purchase one.

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  • imapwnzu said 
    Thu, Nov 15 2007 8:59 PM ()

    WTB Unbiased Benchmark of DX10 cards

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  • Kody said 
    Thu, Nov 15 2007 8:59 PM ()

    I'll keep an eye out on the hardware sites to see if I can find a benchmark on it. :)

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  • 2rbear said 
    Thu, Nov 15 2007 8:59 PM ()

    there's loads of them out there, just try google^^'

    I found one that says that the top model (3870) is better than the 2900XT, and it's almost on par with GeForce 8800GT.
    The 3850 is a little bit behind, but not too much either *cough* overcl*h*ock *cough* ;)

    In high resolutions, it's sometimes better than the 8800GT, and in 3DMark06, it tends to get the best scores ;) (it beats the GT when it comes to SM 3.0, too)

    In crossfire, these boards are equal++ to the 8800GTX, and a bit cheaper too^^

    I'm not sure (it's only rumors from a forum), but it seems AMD/ATi has gotten the AA shaped up from the 2900 series too, so this looks promising indeed.

    I wonder what the benches would look like with GDDR4 RAM and a 1024/512-bit memory bus...... *drool*

    Waiting with anticipation for the 1GiG version (if it comes). Would be fun to see what a huge framebuffer would do...

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  • 2rbear said 
    Thu, Nov 15 2007 8:59 PM ()

    Looking forward to Phenom....... I'll definitely build a new PC when these goodies hit the streets :D

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  • Adame said 
    Thu, Nov 15 2007 8:59 PM ()


    found one that says that the top model (3870) is better than the 2900XT, and it's almost on par with GeForce 8800GT.

    That's not entirily true: in most benchmarks I saw the3970 resting behind the 8800GT


    The 3850 is a little bit behind, but not too much either *cough* overcl*h*ock *cough* ;)

    Again, not always true, and anyway only the 512MB, while the standard reference 256MB blows, even compared to the 8600 extreme (o.c.).


    In high resolutions, it's sometimes better than the 8800GT, and in 3DMark06, it tends to get the best scores ;) (it beats the GT when it comes to SM 3.0, too)

    Not in the diverse benchmark I happened to look at, could you please quote yours? I'm just curious, because they seem to be a bit "biased" (but I could be wrong).


    I'm not sure (it's only rumors from a forum), but it seems AMD/ATi has gotten the AA shaped up from the 2900 series too, so this looks promising indeed.

    This chip is basically little more than a "revision" of the RV600, with a 55nm die, and a revision of the shaders. So, you can expect a betterment on the side of the consumption, but not much else when it comes to performance (the over-heating is probably bound to be a major problem, so forget the o/c unless you are prepared to install a custom combined passive Thermalright+ fan dissipation solution).


    I wonder what the benches would look like with GDDR4 RAM and a 1024/512-bit memory bus... Waiting with anticipation for the 1GiG version (if it comes).

    That is the only real way to get the 3870 over the 8800GT; unluckily, this will come to a cost, that will still make the 8800 GT the best choice.

    I have been an ATI fan for quite some years (my last 3 cards were ATI powered), but now we have to face the truth: we'll have to wait until the next-gen chip hit the shelves to see if ATI/AMD is anywhere able to counter the nVidia better quality/price ratio.
    At the moment, the only wise choice is to mount a 8800GT (easy to o/c, besides).
    The "DX 10.1-ready" hype about the new 3800 series, is nothing more than that: hype.
    The DX10.1 APIs won't be released until the 1-2 qrtr 2008, and it will take at least the end of the 2008 to see the first games fully exploiting the new APIs, so it makes no sense to buy a 10.1 ready card now.
    By the time the 10.1 will be fully operational, there will be the next-gen cards on the market, so...

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