PowerColor's HD 3850 site is here...for now.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:12:56 Mon, November 05, 2007

Our lovely parser located a new PowerColor page today and it is the page for the upcoming HD 3850. Score! Sadly there are no pics yet, but there is a full specifications and bundle list! Weeee! The last time I posted something like this (see the story below this one) the site was pulled after it received enough hits. How long do you guys think this one will stay up? I have screenshots just in case it gets pulled.

What is interesting about these specs is that the HD 3850 is listed with a 512 bit memory bus instead of the 256 bit listed by Diamond. The clock speeds match what Diamond had though.

The pages were removed either last night or this morning. Here is my back-up:

17 Comments

Monday, November 05, 2007 11:36:55 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

256MB vRAM = FAIL .

Monday, November 05, 2007 12:28:18 PM

anonymous
guest

Only 256 that is weak. I guess we will have to wait for other competitor cards then.

Monday, November 05, 2007 1:16:11 PM

anonymous2
guest

Wait... these things have not been released? When they plan to release them? Next year?

Monday, November 05, 2007 2:10:57 PM

anonymous3
guest

the 3850 is slated to be the lower end of the mainstream, vs the 256m 8800GT, so 256m for this card is normal not weak

Monday, November 05, 2007 3:13:53 PM

anonymous2
guest

All this "page up!... page down..." for these videocards makes me guess if ATi will ever change that thing they do... Announce a card and release a year later only to be 0wned by nVidia.

Monday, November 05, 2007 6:00:36 PM

anonymousD
n00b

wasnt it supposed to be 512 bit from the beginning?

Monday, November 05, 2007 6:08:11 PM

Lightnix
guest

To be fair, this happened a lot about the GeForce 8800 GT, and the 3850/70 cards are due out this month.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:42:27 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

Well the pages were removed. Too bad none of you guessed when it was going to happen. You could have one a gajillion dollars in cash munny.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:16:28 PM

anonymous
guest

wow DX 10.1 support

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:03:49 AM

anonymous
guest

I gotta say, I'm glad I've been too broke all year to get a DX10 card. If I'd have shelled out the cash for a 8800GTX only to find out later in the year I'd have to do it again for DX10.1, I'd have probably... flipped my pancakes, to put it politely.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:40:27 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

DX10.1 adds almost nothing , it's fairly useless , as far as I know .

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:50:37 PM

anonymous
guest

Then whats the point of DX10 if its not required by anything yet?

Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:38:31 PM

anonymous
guest

Radiator said 10.1 is usless, not DX10. It's the same &(%& as it was with DX9.b, 9.c

Anyway, you can't tell the difference between the two, 9&10, in games. You never realy focus THAT much on the shadow casted by the grass, when ure blasting headshots all around you.

Friday, November 09, 2007 8:46:22 AM

anonymousD
n00b

actually u can see some of the difference but if the fps is crap forget about it :)

Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:55:25 AM

anonymous
guest

No, actualy, you can't. Not in a fast-paced shooter anyway. Check out some of the reviews with comparisons between dx shots. At present time, dx10 ain't really worth all the trouble to run it.

Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:58:08 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

At this point , there are no real DX10 games . I suppose Crysis will be different , once the retail is released ( the demo only uses one core and the current video card drivers for Crysis are just... crap under DX10 ) .
"the 3850 is slated to be the lower end of the mainstream, vs the 256m 8800GT, so 256m for this card is normal not weak"
320MB on a 8800 GTS isn't enough . The 8800 GT is far more powerful than the 8800 GTS (96) , so 256MB = nowhere near enough .

Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:32:27 AM

nick
guest

I'm not saying this is true but I found on a forum somewhere that ATI focus on bringing higher image quality rather than a better framerate whereas NVIDIA drop the image quality without telling you and get better FPS.

It was only in ATI's last driver 7.10 which was their first real attempt at increasing the framerate rather than image quality and we can only expect the same from 7.11

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