Friday, March 21st 2008
AMD Plans to Add Radeon HD 3830 ?
DigiTimes, citing unnamed industry sources claims that somewhere between April and May, we should expect ATI to launch new Radeon HD 3830 graphics card. The 3830 will have 128-bit memory interface, 320 stream processing units, 16 texture filtering units and 16 ROPs, and will support memory capacities of up to 256MB. The card will be positioned between AMD's Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3650 and will target the gap between NVIDIA's GeForce 9600GT and 8600GTS with a price lower than US$129. The release of Radeon HD 3830 may also lead to price reduction of several other members of the HD 3 series, the Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850. AMD didn't comment on the story.
Source:
DigiTimes
15 Comments on AMD Plans to Add Radeon HD 3830 ?
Shouldnt this be like a HD3690 :p?
Oh wait it has 320 stream processors...so it should be a HD3750 lol.
I would definitely love it if they lowered the 3850 and 3870 prices some more :D
You can find 3850 for around $125 and then the 3870 for around $160.
A lot of options in the mid range :)
TBH, wtf is 128-biut memory doing on a modern card. It really isnt saving them and manuf. costs. Its just crippling for crippling sake.
Using cheap RAM and lowering the clocks is understandable on a budget card, but R6xx on 128-bit is just silly.
Jeesus, what's next, a HD3810 with a 64-bit memory bus AND 320 shaders? They could've put 240 shaders on the card instead, now it's a huge waste. :shadedshu
it wouldn't hurt if it was cheaper thought!
seems more like the X1800 of the x1xxx cards just filling the price point rather then full blown gamers card
more power for the Htpc guys who also are lite games who like little more power then the 3650's
It just confuses people as they are doing with this. Someone may *think* that because its a 38** card its top of the range, when really, its far off the HD3850.