Reviews: Sapphire Radeon HD 3650

If you’re a gamer who’s looking to upgrade your graphics card without spending a load of cash, the Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 might provide the performance boost that your games need. With the card priced at only $80 USD, will it have the power to liven up your graphics? ExtremeTech has a review:

Sapphire’s Radeon HD 3650 is a perfectly reasonable choice. It doesn’t deliver the kind of performance we’d love to see in these budget cards—none of them do—and it won’t give you no-compromise gaming no matter how good the rest of your system is. But it will provide some welcome relief from the horrible experience of integrated graphics, and that’s worth the $80 asking price.

As a reviewer myself, I appreciate the article’s introduction about setting expectations. In the case of the Sapphire Radeon HD 3650, it’s a budget card that offers a cheap solution to the integrated graphics that came with your PC. It’s a reasonably-priced piece of hardware if your aim is only to make your system a playable one. The card was designed for that purpose and, judging from the review, it seems to have served it well.

Source: ExtremeTech

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