DIAMOND Radeon HD 3650 1GB: its place in the graphics card market

This is the new DIAMOND Radeon HD 3650 1GB which needs to find its place in the graphics card market, the decision to include a HDMI port was a good one and means it’s a decent option for HTPC users. The 1GB of RAM does seem a bit pointless, though, as performance on a whole is not what you would expect.

This AMD based HD 3650 graphics card was given a hands-on review by Tweak Town and covered over 15 pages, they summed up by saying “the last time we looked at a Diamond graphics card we were quite impressed, but this HD 3650 is a bit lack luster with poor performance and a very limited package. Personally I think that Diamond should have chosen to include a HDMI cable with the bundle and market it as more of a HTPC card.

Its single slot design and decent noise levels mean it would be a good addition for a HTPC.

The Diamond HD 3650 1GB isn’t a bad card, it’s just nothing all that great. These amounts of memory should really be reserved for only the highest end of cards. Dropping back to 512MB and adding a bit more of a bundle could have meant that the price would be similar and performance almost identical.

The higher end Diamond stuff is exciting, but unfortunately a card like this one with a minimal bundle doesn’t have a lot to offer people”.

Read the 15-page review.