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HD 3850 Crossfire vs. 8800GTS 512MB G92

Author: Shane Baxtor SUMMARY: Is an ATI HD 3850 Crossfire setup a match made in heaven? - We compare to NVIDIA's new G92 based 8800GTS to find out.
Editor: Steve Dougherty
Category: Visual
Published: 8th December 2007

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Test System Setup

Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz (333MHz x 9)
Cooling: Corsair Nautilus500 (Supplied by Corsair) with Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (Supplied by Arctic Cooling)
Motherboard(s): ASUS Blitz Extreme (Supplied by ASUS)
Memory: 2 X 1GB Corsair XMS3 DDR-3 1066MHz 7-7-7-21 (Supplied by Corsair)
Hard Disk(s): Hitachi 80GB 7200RPM SATA-2
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista
Drivers: Catalyst 7.11, Forceware 169.06 (8800GTS 512MB)

With a pretty good idea of what an 8800GTS 512MB is going to set you back (providing stock levels aren’t a problem), for similar money you’re able to find yourself with a pair of Radeon HD 3850s. Not only this, but you can grab a pair of pre-overclocked GECUBE variants with an even better than standard cooler on them.

The GECUBE X-TURBO III ATI Radeon HD 3850 manages not only to pack some extra speed, but also get an upgrade from 256MB of DDR3 to 512MB; this to match the G92 based 8800GTS. Looking at clockspeeds, the GECUBE offerings come in with a core clock of 725MHz and 1800MHz DDR on the memory. The 8800GTS 512MB on the other hand packs a default clock speed of 650MHz with a 1650MHz shader clock to boot. It also runs with a relatively high 1940MHz DDR memory clock.

Across our normal line up of real world and synthetic benchmarks we will see how a two card Crossfire setup competes against the soon to be released 8800GTS 512MB. Where is your money best spent? Since we already have the 8800GTS’ overclocked results in hand from a previous article, we thought we may as well throw them into the mix as well and see what comes out in the wash.


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Straight away we can see the Crossfire setup takes a pretty good lead. We see it doesn’t take as big a hit at the higher resolution as the single 8800GTS 512MB.



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