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Diamond Viper Radeon HD 3650 1GB review



http://www.techspot.com/review/98-diamond-viper-radeon-3650/



The Radeon HD 3650 looks to be an attractive product on paper, it is the
latest member of the Radeon HD 3000 series, and can carry up to 1GB of
memory on-board. The 3650 is also a Direct X 10.1 compliant card that
supports the PCI Express 2.0 bus. Furthermore, like all Radeon HD 3000
series products, this new low-end graphics card is built using a 55nm design
process. Topped off with a 725MHz core speed, the Radeon HD 3650 sounds like
quite a gutsy little graphics card.



But of course the card had to fell short in other places, otherwise we
wouldn't be calling it a budget product. For example, it is limited to a
128-bit wide memory bus, and when combined with rather sluggish GDDR2
memory, the Radeon HD 3650 produces a memory bandwidth of just 16GB/s. To
put this figure into perspective, it is comparable to the Radeon X700 XT
which was released back in 2004. This goes to remind us what is the Radeon
HD 3650 is targeted to a certain less demanding crowd and that we shouldn't
expect spectacular results on the gaming front.