Long thought to be the market of the conservative gamer, the affordable mainstream products, which use to suffer only adequate performance, now experiences a frame rate revival with the SAPPHIRE HD 3850. Built upon the award winning Radeon HD 3850 core, the SAPPHIRE 3850 offers a comprehensive feature-set that eclipses previous and current mainstream offerings. Unleash the enthusiast inside you with support for advanced technologies such as DirectX® 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support, integrated HDMI and HDCP support for Blu-ray™/HD DVD decoding and for the extreme enthusiast, pair two together for the ultimate gaming experience with CrossFire X™ support! Jam a SAPPHIRE HD 3850 into your rig and still have some coin left over to buy that title you have been waiting for!
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- DirectX® 10.1 support
- CrossFire X™ support
- ATI PowerPlay
- Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
| Product Description | Sapphire HD3850 256Mb PCI-Express graphics card |
| Device Type | Graphics Adapter |
| Enclosure Type | Plug-in Card |
| Data Bus | PCI Express x16 |
| Graphics Processor / Vendor | Radeon HD 3850 |
| Video Memory Installed ( Max ) | 256 MB - GDDR3 |
| RAMDAC | 2 X 400MHz |
| Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| Stream Processors | 320 |
| HDTV compatibility | Yes |
| TV Out resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Display Out Put | Dual DVI, TVO |
- 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
- Ring Bus Memory Controller
- Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
- Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
- Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
- Anti-aliasing features
- Texture filtering features
- OpenGL 2.0 support
- ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
- ATI PowerPlay™
- ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology