Following our previous large survey of AGP video cards, where the overall winner was ATI FireGL X1, a game for applications was the undisputed leader NVidia GeForce 6800GS, visit with us even more powerful graphics card for AGP. PowerColor ATI Radeon HD3850 is not only a more powerful video card from the previous test, but at the moment is the most productive AGP video card on the market.
Video card supports all the latest technologies – PS4, DX10, HD acceleration and others. There should be a game or application that this video can not spurred. Production of HD3850 and fully complies with not a small price surpasses even the video card. Most highly impressed and very quiet cooler, maintaining a reasonable temperature of video chip, motherboard and memory (the cooler has a special structure which directs airflow to the memory, motherboard and power of the radiator elements). Unlike incredible 110-120 degrees, which reached the previous champion – GeForce 6800GS, ATI HD3850 does not exceed 70 degrees in the most solid load. Again, excellent use our test machine for AGP video cards – IBM Thinkcentre M50. Compatibility is significantly better than that by “shining” of video cards NVidia.
The operating system is Windows XP Pro SP3. We will use the results of our previous review of AGP video cards to compare how ATI HD3850 is more powerful than older generations of video cards. In the old test 3DMark2001 advantage of ATI HD3850 is the expected level and the video card has a slightly better performance from the GeForce 6800GS. However, remember that the ATI video cards are heavily CPU-dependent, and test suite itself 3Dmark2001, a Pentium 4 3.06GHz in contemporary standards as productivity is medium. In 3DMark2003 performance of Radeon HD3850 is simply desperate for other higher video card – the difference is more than 200% even against the powerful 6800GS. In 3DMark2005 and 3DMark2006 is also a huge difference.
AQUAMARK not impress many of DX10, PS version, etc.. current technology, however, HD3850 is more than any other, albeit not as clearly as the lead in 3DMark.
Professional OpenGL test suite of SPEC is also not impressed by new technologies, but Radeon HD3850 in some tests failed to win even Quadro and FireGL.

Tags: AGP video cards, AQUAMARK, ATI FireGL X1, ATI Radeon, DX10, HD3850, OpenGL, PowerColor, PowerColor ATI Radeon, PS version, Radeon, Radeon HD3850, SPEC

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