Diamond's HD3850 Ruby Edition is a great choice if you are looking for a Radeon HD 3850 that has a bit more punch than the AMD reference design. The extra GDDR3 memory, which brings the card to a total of 512 MB, increases performance by roughly 10% but also increases the price of the product a bit. What I don't understand is why Diamond left the clocks of their card at reference speed. In our overclocking tests we saw that the card can easily handle much higher clocks so it would be an easy way by Diamond to gain additional features that could be advertised and benefit the customer.
Overall the performance of the HD 3850 is good enough to play all current games at their "high" detail setting. Also the card is a great addition to any media PC system because of the HDMI+HDCP+Audio support. Just attach the included adapter, connect your HDMI cable and you're ready to watch HD movies on your big screen.