Although AMD had failed to snatch the performance crown from NVIDIA with the launch of their RV670 chipset a couple of months back, they certainly had users and enthusiasts raving over the bang-for-buck performance that the cards could provide. However, the arrival of the HD3000 series of cards have left their HD2400 and HD2600 dangling in no-mans-land without a refresh of its feature set. Fortunately for ATI, they have seen to this by announcing their Radeon HD3450 and HD3650 line to refresh the former graphics accelerator line with new features akin to their HD38XX line of cards.

The new card we have in the labs today is ASUS' rendition of the Radeon HD3650 but with a difference. ASUS being ASUS, wouldn't leave the new RV635Pro GPU alone and so the EAH3650 TOP we received is a factory overclocked version of the HD3650. Featuring a dual-slot cooler, a 128-bit wide memory bus and GDDR3 memory, the card certainly looks very promising on paper. We shall take the EAH3650 TOP and pit it against the competition and see if it would live up to the hype generated by its elder breathen.

ASUS says it's 10% faster!

Lets take a look at the basic specifications differences�before we move on.