Overdriven Radeon HD 3800 video cards from PowerColor
In addition to the reference models, PowerColor also introduced individually cooled, tuned Radeon HD 3800s.
Elevated clocks resulted in the removal of the reference cooling, replaced by a huge fan surrounded by copper fins on both the Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3870. From our table below, you can read exactly what PowerColor tuning in numbers means compared to models running at benchmarks.
PowerColor | HD 3850 | HD 3850 OC | HD 3870 | HD 3870 OC |
Graphic memory | 256MB GDDR3 | 512MB GDDR3 | 512MB GDDR4 | 512MB GDDR4 |
GPU clock | 668 MHz | 720 MHz | 775 MHz | 800 MHz |
Memory clock | 2 x 828 MHz | 2 x 900 MHz | 2 x 1126 MHz | 2 x 1200 MHz |
The type of memory bus | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
