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The AMD Radeon HD 3650 is a mid-range low cost GPU aimed at the under $100
market of graphics cards. Sapphire is one of the AMD's best partners and is
known for taking their products and making them better than reference
design. But does the HD 3650 have the power to take on NVIDIA's 8600 GTS
cards?

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=545&type=expert

Quote: "When the Radeon HD 3650 card was first released we were a little
underwhelmed by the specifications as it seemed that nothing had been
improved upon when compared to the previous, RV600-based HD 2600-series of
cards. And in fact that is the case: performance remains mostly the same
while power consumption has dropped and thus heat output too. That doesn't
make the HD 3650 a home run though as NVIDIA's answers to the card continue
to stack up and perform better - the 8600 GTS with half the frame buffer was
easily outpacing the Sapphire HD 3650 card with 512MB of GDDR3 memory even
when overclocked."

Ryan Shrout
Owner - PC Perspective
rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com