Every time producers surprising us standard AGP, which seem to be able, long ago passed into history. In an era of PCI-Express 2.0 on the new card mounted in the AGP Slot becomes quite interesting fact. The more so if it turns out that the company PowerColor decided to go on the market with the latest chip card ATI HD3850.

A natural consequence of deposition chip on the card using the AGP connector is the lower performance compared with a solution that uses the newer type of slot. New PowerColor will offer strong core at 668MHz and memory speed of 828MHz (1656Mhz) for 512MB of memory GDDR3. The same chip on PCI-E obtained value 720MHz/900MHz (1800MHz). Of course, AGP card was a Diet Crossfire connector, which in this case, there would be no use.

The new card will most likely already available in January. Although pleased by the holders of old computers, who for various przczyn can not, they do not want to move to a platform with PCI-Express.