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Sapphire's Ultimate range of passively cooled graphics cards provides decent
performance with no noise.
This latest card is the fastest passively cooled card we have tested to date.
Under the heatpipe cooler everything is the same as the standard actively
cooled HD3850 with 320 stream processors, a core clock of 668MHz and 512MB of
GDDR3 memory running at 828MHz.
The only real downside is that the heatsink and cooler turn the card into a
two-slot design. It will make a decent fist of most of today's games, with the
exception of Crysis, but the
HD3850 Ultimate is not alone on that one.