chanster
04-04-2008, 10:46 PM
Diamond is a company primarily working in North America, mainly perhaps because that's where it's based and selling cards to OEMs, which is a big market in North America. For this review they sent us two cards, and at a first glance they may look like nothing out of the ordinary, since they're both based on the RV670 core, just like the card from MSI. But, Diamond has managed to squeeze in 1GB memory, which no other HD 3870 has, but then we haven't even touched the biggest news yet; the 512-bit memory bus. The 1GB version has eight 64-bit memory chips, and for that to work you need a 512-bit bus. The memory is still GDDR3, frequency is set to 900MHz, although measured to 870MHz. The core operates at 825MHz, much like the MSI card and a slight increase of AMD's reference clock of 775MHz.
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Source (http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?page=13&skrivelse=530)
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Source (http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?page=13&skrivelse=530)