The Phoenix of card manufacturers, Diamond Multimedia seems to be so excited about its AMD/ATI-based cards that it has already posted the upcoming and yet unannounced Radeon HD 3800 series on its website. The three cards available are the 512MB Radeon HD 3870 and the 512 and 256MB version of the HD 3850, unfortunately only the first and last being actually detailed. The Radeon HD 3870 page included some interesting information like the core clock which is claimed to be 775 MHz and not the rumored 825 MHz (the memory clock is at 1200 MHz - 2400 MHz DDR as expected). The rest of the specs are in line with the information already available, DirectX 10.1 support, 320 Stream Processors, 256-bit memory interface, Crossfire X support and built-in 5.1 audio.

As for the HD 3850, the memory is posted as being set to 828 MHz (1656 MHz DDR) while the core clock is 668 MHz. There are no prices of real pictures of the cards posted but we have a pretty good idea of both. And now we wait.




The images have been ghosted due to a request from Diamond Multimedia. The full details of the Radeon HD 3800 series will be available here and on Diamond's website on launch day.