news 28 Posted April 30, 2008 The fastest single-GPU card from AMD is still the Radeon HD 3870 and continues to struggle to stand up to the increasing competition from NVIDIA. Diamond is attempting to bump up the GPU's performance by increasing the frame buffer to 1GB - but can it help performance at all? URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=553&type=expert Quote: "In a couple of cases, mainly in Bioshock and World in Conflict, the extra frame buffer made a noticeable impact on our gaming experience and allowed us to play much more comfortably at the 1920x1200 settings than on any other single-GPU AMD graphics card. In the rest of the titles we played through the 1GB card offered no benefits over the 512MB versions - and this was surprising in cases like Call of Juarez that are heavily dependent on memory subsystem performance." Thanks for a post! Ryan Shrout Owner - PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com Share this post Link to post
