Hothardware has reviewed the new Radeon HD 3870 and a Radeon 3870 1 GB version. The first one is a plain vanilla version while the latter is an overclocked version with GDDR4 memory slapped on.
Diamond continues the tradition of the Viper brand name by releasing dual versions based on the Radeon HD 3870 GPU. While the benchmarks prove that NVIDIA still holds the upper hand in performance, it's fair to say that ATI has a good competitor in the price vs. performance department, with many HD 3870 models, including Diamond's 512MB version, currently hovering around $150 these days. The 1GB GDDR3 version comes a higher clocked GPU to go along with the double sized memory buffer, but these additions didn't offer all that much more performance. Couple the overclocked1GB model's only slightly higher performance with its significantly higher price of around $230 ($190 with current MIR), and it's difficult to justify spending the extra money, especially now that the Radeon HD 4850 has arrived for about the same price.
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