Tuesday, February 23rd 2010
ATI Radeon HD 5830 Specifications Surface
AMD's new performance graphics card that targets an upper-mainstream price-point, the Radeon HD 5830, is slated for February 25. A set of company slides sourced by IT168.com shows the GPU's specifications are in tune with what we expected. The HD 5830 is based on AMD's Cypress 40 nm GPU. It has 1120 stream processors, a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, 16 ROPs, 56 TMUs, and clock speeds of 800 MHz (core) and 1000 MHz (memory). The memory bandwidth on the card is 128 GB/s, on par with that of the Radeon HD 5850. The core clock speed is slightly higher, too.
With a GPU of these specifications, AMD targets the market price-range of $200-$250, where there's room for a DirectX 11 generation graphics card to be positioned between the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5850. The maximum board power of the card is slightly higher than that of the HD 5850, but we think that's because reference designs - if there are - might not use high-grade digital PWM circuitry. That typically shouldn't affect overclocking headroom a big deal.
The Radeon HD 5830 further has 1 GB of memory, and supports ATI Eyefinity technology. With the same display controllers as on the Radeon HD 5870, the card can support up to six physical displays. AMD's add-in board partners should be able to release non-reference design graphics cards right away, so you wouldn't have to wait any further for a PCS+, the VaporX, or the IceQ+.
Source:
IT168
With a GPU of these specifications, AMD targets the market price-range of $200-$250, where there's room for a DirectX 11 generation graphics card to be positioned between the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5850. The maximum board power of the card is slightly higher than that of the HD 5850, but we think that's because reference designs - if there are - might not use high-grade digital PWM circuitry. That typically shouldn't affect overclocking headroom a big deal.
72 Comments on ATI Radeon HD 5830 Specifications Surface
Maybe ATI figured Nvidia would snap into gear and release fermi :laugh:
Only 5% difference on STOCK speeds from 5770 means 2 5770s WILL pawn 5830 for 50EUR more and the satisfaction of XFIRE:nutkick:
5830s are like the lottery I guess lol you could get an epic one but you could get an awful one.
( In the UK 5830s could be worth it as if you buy online you can rma the item within 14 days just because you don't like it, then just buy from another shop, repeat until you get an epic one!)
But what i do is OC a card then if it wont OC nice i RMA it (bios flash...ahem) to a maximum of 3 times and if i am lucky i find one that OC well;)
A lot of PC games don't support crossfire properly because a lot of them are console ports these days.
Also the prices of 5830 are 235-249€ whereas 5850 goes for 265-300€
5770 is also faster un OC'd in some few titles. 4890 is faster by a margin. U can still get 4890 for about 200€ or lower (used) so I really can't justice buying one.
The ATI stuff seems a lot more $ than they were a few mos ago:rolleyes:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102879
FTL!
(I thought there was an article a while back that mentioned ATI and Nvidia working together to keep prices up)
I like that deal better. :D
also are those cards the same length as a 5870? (I thought I read in one of the things that the 5830 was built using messed up 5870s)
If so that would make it too long to be useful to me.