Sapphire Technology has just launched a new version of its HD 3850 with 1GB GDDR3 memory. It also has a core clock speed of 703MHz, higher than the standard model. It incorporates ATI Avivo and a built in UVD (Unified Video decoder) for the hardware accelerated decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Featuring the latest CrossFireX technology, the SAPPHIRE HD 3850 has two high speed connectors on each card allowing more 4 graphics cards to be daisy-chained together. As each card has two dual-link DVI connectors, this allows up to eight monitors to be used at the same time, or - with CrossFire enabled - two GPUs.

• Chipset: Radeon HD 3850
• Clock: 703 MHz
• Memory: 1 GB GDDR3
• Memory clock: 829 MHz 
• Memory Interface: 256 bits
• Bus interface: PCI-E x16
• Display Interfaces: 2x Dual-link DVI with HDCP + HDTV Out (HDMI+Audio with adapter)