Thursday, July 15th 2010
Radeon HD 5830 Gets Price-Cuts, Takes Aim at GeForce GTX 460
Call it one of the immediate repercussions of NVIDIA's Monday launch of the GeForce GTX 460, AMD has responded covertly with noticeable price-cuts for the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, from across various AIB partners. Leading partners such as Sapphire, HIS, and Gigabyte positioned their models that have AMD-reference clock speeds at US $199.99, and factory-overclocked models starting at $229.99. Incidentally these are two price-points NVIDIA is targeting with the GeForce GTX 460, with the 768 MB variant positioned at $199.99, which NVIDIA refers to as the gamers' sweet-spot, and the 1 GB variant at $229.99.
Reviews from across the web show that while GeForce GTX 460 768MB gets close to the Radeon HD 5830 in terms of performance, it only takes the 1 GB variant to perform on par. With AMD positioning the HD 5830 at $199, and factory-overclocked HD 5830 starting at $229.99, things could get heated up in this market segment. Based on the 40 nm Cypress GPU, the Radeon HD 5830 is DirectX 11 compatible, packs 1120 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Reviews from across the web show that while GeForce GTX 460 768MB gets close to the Radeon HD 5830 in terms of performance, it only takes the 1 GB variant to perform on par. With AMD positioning the HD 5830 at $199, and factory-overclocked HD 5830 starting at $229.99, things could get heated up in this market segment. Based on the 40 nm Cypress GPU, the Radeon HD 5830 is DirectX 11 compatible, packs 1120 stream processors, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory.
84 Comments on Radeon HD 5830 Gets Price-Cuts, Takes Aim at GeForce GTX 460
^^Even the mild OCing in the $210 MSI Cyclone makes it 11% faster than the HD5830.
MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Ferm...
Nah, Ati is trying to use the halo of their HD5000 in their favor, but IMO they will have to lower the price much more.
IMHO, this is the price point the HD 5830 should've launched at. They've been asking way too much for this ROP crippled Evergreen. If they would've just dropped the stream processor count down to 1120 units but left the ROP amount alone, then this card would've been much better.
That would shake things up somewhat as ATI sales would go through the roof and the ER near the green headquarters would be a bit crowded. :D
Ho makes the cost of the products ? why the people in europe have to pay more for the same article ?:eek:
1- Nvidia clears complete 465, and probably enough 470 inventories.
2- Once that happens Nvidia releases GTX475 aka full GF104 with 384 SP.
3- Nvidia does want to make that SKU competitive, meaning that is clocked above 700Mhz.
It all boils down to 1 really, since I'm 99% sure that Nvidia could have released that card along with the 460. They fixed all the problems related to 40nm for this chip as can be seen from the good power consumption and uber high OCs (in some reviews the Asus one with voltage control has reached 900++ Mhz) so I don't believe for one second that yields for the full chip are low. Not even close to what would be described as low, in fact, yields must be really good (for being 40 nm).
They didn't because it would compete with or even beat the GTX470. So right now they are doing two things, stockpile chips so to make a good launch and wait until they move some GF100 inventory, just like they waited with the 512MB 8800GTS. I've been just looking for prices in the UK in order to make a half informed recommendation to a guy from UK and the GTX460 can be had for 159 pounds in OCUK, which has never been known for it's good prices afaik.
seems like moore's law got kicked in the nuts pretty bad this time around.
GTX 460 uses less power, and have CUDA and PhysX if you care.
And if you can go multi-gpu setup, 2 of 1GB version overclocked is just as good as 5970 but for 240 bucks less.
Performance/watt wise:
here is a HD 5830 for £135 :D..............
www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/5020944/art/pixmania/radeon-hd-5830-1-gb-gddr5.html
Now that a good buy, better even than the 460 in terms of value at least.
And £160 for the nice Palit 460 with custom cooling..............
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-000-PL&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1830
Bottom line sadly is.... we pay more taxes in Europe than the USA, both import and VAT etc etc.