ATI Radeon HD 3800 series benchmarked: “ATI should be truly proud”

By Thomas Ricker | November 15, 2007

Now that they’re out, we bet you’re wondering about the performance of that pair of mid-range, ATI Radeon cards announced this morning. According to TG Daily and just about everyone else, the Nvidia GeForce 8800GT is still the best performing midrange graphics card on the market (for a few bucks more, if you can find it). But if you like the performance of the Radeon HD 2900 XT, you’ll be happy with your lower priced, but similar performing Radeon HD 3870 according to HotHardware. They go on to call the HD 3850 “quite strong” when compared against mid-range cards like the Radeon 2600 XT and GeoForce 8600 GTS. In fact, Custom PC says that the 3850 “blows both of these cards away.” Thanks to the new 55nm manufacturing process, both cards kept power consumption, temperature, and noise levels “way down” in comparison. Lots to love from the benchmarking gang. Only thing left to do now is to track them down for that $179 and $219 MSRP.

P.S. If you spot more benchmarks let us know so we can round the critters up.

Update: Round-up now posted after the break.

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