AMD ATI Radeon HD 3800 budget graphics card: released four days early

Great news for all you gamers who are on a budget as AMD are too launch the ATI Radeon HD 3800 four days before the official date. We reported a few weeks back that these new GPUs are the world’s first to offer support for DirectX 10.1.

According to I4U the ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card has the new 55nm process technology, add to this the new tri and quad multi-GPU support it does seem as if gamers on a budget has never had it so good. There are two models in the 3800 series, the first is the Radeon HD 3850 which comes with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and comes with a price tag of $179. The second is the Radeon HD 3870, this GPU comes with 512MB of GDDR4 and will cost $219.