Tuning-friendly HD 3850 from ASUS

ASUS can be welcomed.

Named the EAH3850 SMART OC / HTDI / 1G, the RV670 core, Glaciator cooling and overclocking make it look like a promising Radeon HD 3850 variant, but the 1GB of memory is not only redundant, but unfortunately also DDR2.

This way, despite the fact that we can increase the graphics processor clock from 669 to 796 and the memory from 990 to 1100 MHz, we still look at the ASUS child with a bitter taste, even though the GPU temperature is ~ 20 degrees Celsius lower and the 12% performance increase - as measured by ASUS in 3DMark06 - are really good-sounding parameters in the card description.