HEXUS.net reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 1GB and Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Ultimate video cards
NVIDIA and ATI will be launching their new iteration of GPUs in June, at around the COMPUTEX time-frame, if rumours are to be believed.
ATI's upcoming RV770 will push the incumbent 3800-series pricing down further, we reckon, which is already competitive against NVIDIA's, as you can currently purchase a retail Radeon HD 3870 512 for £93, including VAT.
Partners appreciate that differentiating solely on lowest price is a recipe for disaster, and that's why many of the larger AICs retail multiple models based on a particular SKU.
Sapphire, for example, has four Radeon HD 3850s and no less than eight Radeon HD 3870s in its range.
We took a look at two non-reference models, HD 3850 1GiB and HD 3870 ULTIMATE, to see if they're worth considering over the rock-bottom reference pricing...
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