Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 GDDR3 512MB Review

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The AMD Radeon HD 3650 is a mid-range low cost GPU aimed at the under $100

market of graphics cards. Sapphire is one of the AMD's best partners and is

known for taking their products and making them better than reference

design. But does the HD 3650 have the power to take on NVIDIA's 8600 GTS

cards?

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=545&type=expert

 

Quote: "When the Radeon HD 3650 card was first released we were a little

underwhelmed by the specifications as it seemed that nothing had been

improved upon when compared to the previous, RV600-based HD 2600-series of

cards. And in fact that is the case: performance remains mostly the same

while power consumption has dropped and thus heat output too. That doesn't

make the HD 3650 a home run though as NVIDIA's answers to the card continue

to stack up and perform better - the 8600 GTS with half the frame buffer was

easily outpacing the Sapphire HD 3650 card with 512MB of GDDR3 memory even

when overclocked."

 

Ryan Shrout

Owner - PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com