Diamond's HD 3870 and HD 3850 pages are up!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:20:56 Fri, November 02, 2007

Using our parser I have located two Diamonds in the rough. [Crickets chirping]

Tough crowd. Anyway, I present you the websites for Diamond's new HD 3870 and HD 3850. Here are the essential specifications for the HD 3870 to whet your appetite:

Specifications

GPU: ATI Radeon™ 3870
Bus Type: PCI-Express X16 (PCI Express 2.0)
Core Clock: 775 MHZ
Memory Size: 512MB
Memory Configuration: 16Mx32 GDDR4
Memory Interface: 256-Bit
Memory Speed: 1.2 GHz
API Support: DirectX® 9.0 and 10.0, OpenGL
Display Formats: Two Dual Link DVI + HDTV-Out

I would also like to point out Diamond's PSU suggestions of "A 450 Watt or greater (650 for CrossFire™) power supply recommended" for both the HD 3870 and HD 3850. For the rest of the juicy details you will have to visit their site. Sadly, there are no pics of Diamond's cards, but there are some pics of the HD 3850 and HD 3870 floating around.

The pages have been removed from Diamond's site, but I saved a picture of them just in case this happened! Click on the thumbnail below.

Tom's Hardware HD 3870 and HD 3850 pics.

14 Comments

Friday, November 02, 2007 1:25:28 PM

anonymousD
n00b

whet or wet? :D

the 3870's cooler is way better since it exits hot air from the case :thumb:

Friday, November 02, 2007 1:53:06 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/wet.html

"It is natural to think that something mouth-watering %u201Cwets your appetite,%u201D but actually the expression is %u201Cwhet your appetite%u201D%u2014 sharpen your appetite, as a whetstone sharpens a knife."

Friday, November 02, 2007 2:48:01 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

The HD 3850 will be a damn heater , 55nm process or not , it uses a single slot cooler sadly . Now , wasn't the RV670 core supposed to support DX10.1 ( not that it matters though , because it doesn't add almost anything ) . 256bit . I can prettymuch forsee the results , it will get beaten by the HD 2900 XT at first , because of the drivers, later it might become faster than the XT though . And it will not beat the 8800 GT . But it's based on the R6** core , so don't expect much from it .

Friday, November 02, 2007 5:00:45 PM

anonymous
guest

Wow they seem good, specs wise, but we will wait till the benchmarks come out. So anyone know when they come out?

Friday, November 02, 2007 6:30:59 PM

anonymousD
n00b

kinda like with the gt wich should be a castrated gtx :shifty: ? :)

Friday, November 02, 2007 9:52:20 PM

anonymous
guest

So whats the pipeline count?

Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:59:14 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

It should have 320 shader processors .
Not sure about ROPs and TMUs . ATi would do wise to increase the number of ROPs and TMUs on the RV670 .

Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:26:42 PM

anonymous
guest

I notice the boxes are HD 2600 PRO. Maybe the reason the pages were pulled?

Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:07:20 PM

anonymous
guest

320 AFAIK

Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:44:05 AM

anonymous
guest

why dont they they start a new core now that their high end cards have been beaten by the 8800gt

Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:45:48 PM

Wraithdagger
guest

Is it just me or are these new cards a bit of a step backwards? What happened to the 512 bit bus?

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:19:24 AM

Lightnix
guest

I'm gonna say that the 512-bit bus may have been too expensive to produce, and that a 256-bit bus is already enough to satisfy that core's need.

Monday, November 12, 2007 10:02:13 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

The memory bandwidth was never the bottleneck in the HD 2900 XT . The outrageous memory bandwidth was pretty useless . It doesn't need that much memory bandwidth .

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57:16 PM

anonymousD
n00b

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=703&p=0

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