Review: Sapphire HD3850 Ultimate graphics card

Fast, quiet and passively cooled

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.