Once a proud upstart hoping to dethrone the 8800 GTX, the HD 3870 now finds itself languishing at the bottom of an bottomless pit that we know as obsolesce. With a 775 MHz core, 512 MB of GDDR4 memory, and 320 SPs, the HD 3870 just didn't cut the mustard when it came to performance.

Features
Two vendors had 3870s to send us ASUS and Sapphire. Both of these cards were stock clocked, and both came with identical bundles, except that ASUS gives
away leather PC pouches and a mousepad with every graphics card. Unlike the 4850, no HDMI adapters are included. No game bundles either.

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Performance
Needless to say, with identical specifications both these cards performed nearly identically. There's absolutely nothing to choose between them, except that that the Sapphire HD3870 512 MB is priced at Rs 7,900. Even this isn't enough to justifY a purchase, since the Palit GeForce 9800GT at Rs 8,250 makes a much stronger case for itself.