Introduction

It's been a while since we've seen something from Sapphire but it was bound to happen sooner or later with the release of the HD 3850 and HD 3870. The thing is though, you don't want to look at boring cards with stock cooling or just stock clocks.

That's not exciting at all, you want to see big overclocks or fancy heatsinks on your graphics cards so we waited and waited until a press release was sent out from Sapphire mentioning the release of the new HD 3850 Ultimate.

We like the word Ultimate, it sounds powerful so we were intrigued and thought it was time to get something new and exciting from Sapphire.

With card in hand it was time to see what exactly what the new Ultimate HD 3850 is capable of, so let's move on.