Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 Review

Testing:

OverclockersClub will be running the Sapphire HD 3870 Atomic Edition through our benchmarking suite to see how the video card performs. The OverclockersClub series of gaming benchmarks is used to verify the performance of this product. If you would like to see how other video cards performed in an XP platform, please check our Video Card Section under reviews. We will show comparisons to other video cards using the Vista Platform, which can be found below. All video card settings were left at setup defaults to eliminate any variables.

Testing Setup:

• Processor: AMD Phenom 9600 200 x 11.5
• Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum (Bios V1.21)
• Memory: 4 x 1GB Mushkin DDR2 XP2 8500 at 800 5-5-5-15 2t
• Video Card(s): ATI HD 3870 512MB
• Power Supply: Mushkin 650watt  Modular Power Supply
• Hard Drive: Seagate 320GB  SATA
• Opticals: NEC DV5700
• O/S: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

Overclocking:

The best overclock achieved was only eight megahertz. Not very good, but considering that this is a pre-overclocked card, I wasn't expecting much.

Benchmarks:

1. Crysis
2. Knights of the Sea
3. Bioshock
4. Call of Duty 4
5. World in Conflict
6. Call of Jaurez
7. 3DMark 06 Professional