*Review: techPowerUp (
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/P...3850_Xtreme/)*
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Recently AMD has released their new RV670 GPU which is used on their HD3850 and HD3870 cards. We recently reviewed an overclocked card from GeCube (
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/G..._X-Turbo-III/), today we have PowerColor's go at making a card that outperforms the reference design.
The RV670 GPU is based on the RV610 and RV630 architecture, but features much better performance. It is built on a 55nm process with 666 million transistors with a 256 bit memory interface. All features like UVD and HDMI+Audio are included as well. As a novelty this chip brings DirectX (
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/P..._3850_Xtreme/#) 10.1 support (
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/P..._3850_Xtreme/#) and can benefit from the improved features of PCI-Express 2.0. While both features are not important today they are a clear commitment from AMD that they are looking at future technologies and will make use of them as soon as possible.
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