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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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We're writing to let you all know that we've just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate Diamond Multimedia's Viper Radeon HD 3850 512MB Overclocked Ruby Edition graphics card - perhaps one of the longest names for a single product that we've come across. As its name suggests, the Viper Radeon HD 3850 512MB Overclocked Ruby Edition's frame buffer has been doubled from the reference card's 256MB to 512MB. Additionally, Diamond has gone an extra step and raised GPU and memory speeds from the default 670MHz / 830MHz of the original reference design to 725Mhz / 900MHz. Higher speeds and more memory just might be what the doctor ordered to make the Diamond Viper HD 3850 512MB a bit more competitive in an already crowded field of mainstream graphics cards. Head on over to the site and check it out...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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The HD3850 is an interesting card in the grand scheme of ATI's lineup and Diamond's 512MB version of the card is also interesting in that the card lies right in the middle of the 3850 to HD3870 price range. The price for this card online is $199.99, on Diamond's website and $179.99 at the lowest price available, which is $10 more than the 256MB version of this card. Compared to its lower memory sibling, the 256MB HD3850, a 512MB 3850 provides more performance for just a little more money. The 3850 from Diamond comes default clocked, meaning that the performance increase only comes from the extra memory on the card.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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Diamond Multimedia doubled the on-board GDDR3 memory from 256MB to 512MB on the Diamond Radeon HD 3850 512MB Ruby Edition Video Card, which should significantly help frame buffer performance in gaming, but that isn't all they did. They also tossed the old single slot cooler and went with a larger and improved cooling system that lowered temperatures across the board. To top it all off they designed their own PCB! As you can see, Diamond went back to the drawing board and came up with a video card that should impress most of the ATI fans out there...
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Friday, January 18, 2008
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Diamond has designed their HD 3850 Ruby Edition with additional cooling performance in mind. Their cooler is a custom dual-slot solution which does quite a good job at keeping the card cool. In addition to that the memory has been doubled to 512 MB of GDDR3.
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