Last month, Legit Reviews benchmarked a pair of ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card on the day they were launched, but didn’t have a pair of Radeon HD 3870′s to contain in the article. The Radeon HD 3850 record cards were impressive for what they may possibly do at their price top and we were excited to see what the quicker Radeon HD 3870 was competent of doing on the latest game titles. We have now
received a pair of ATI Radeon 3870 graphics cards to test and equate to all the additional cards we have on the test bench. In view of the fact that we covered much of the new Radeon HD 3800
series architecture in our before article, delight reference it for the
technological shared class on the cards facial appearance.
The ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card is the same length as the Radeon HD 3850, but is has a dual-slot cooler on top to help keep the quicker core and reminiscence nice and cool. The
cores on both cards are the same, but the Radeon HD 3870 is clocked at 777MHz. The ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card core timer speed is 670MHz, so the Radeon HD 3870 has 107MHz core timer boost. The ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card uses 512MB of 1.2GHz GDDR4 reminiscence, which is an enhancement over the 256MB of 900MHz GDDR3 that the Radeon HD 3850 has. The cooling fan on the ATI Radeon 3870 is observably larger than the Radeon HD 3850, and it is also louder. The acoustics on the Radeon 3850 is 31dBA compared to 34dBA on the Radeon HD 3870. In fleeting, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card has privileged timer speeds and as a upshot has larger and best cooling.
ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card
The spectacle boundary has a pair of dual-link DVI outputs with HDCP (HDMI + Audio with the adapter) and HDTV out. The
hot air does vent out the rear of the record card, which is nice as you don’t want all the hot air from the record card to wait inside the case.
The Radeon HD 3870 has a peak board power of ~105W, which is a tad more than the ~95W on the Radeon HD 3850. Not terrible even if compelling into account it has privileged clocks, twice as much reminiscence and a more commanding fan. ATI knowledgeable us that a 450Watt or greater power give with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI
Express power connector is recommended to steadily use this graphics card.
ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card
The back of the card doesn’t have much to see, but you can see the dual CrossFire interconnects. To run CrossFire only one is needed, but for ATI CrossFireX you’ll need to use both. CrossFireX
drivers will be out early next year, which
means you can run four of these cards together at the same time! Let’s go on to the benchmarks!
ATI Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire Record Card
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