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
Did you guys notice that power spec:
HD5850 151Watt
HD5830 175Watt
So that would mean there will be more noise, especially if they try to skimp on the cooler's material costs.
obviously
In addition to what El Mayo said, this is just the beginning. And improved cooler systems will be introduced to the 5830 and I think a decent factor OC (set price around $255) will give the 5850 a run for it's money as the best bang for your buck. Also, this will have to prompt so price adjustments once benchmarks are done depending on how much better than the 5770 it is. If not so much, price may come down to $215, more than expected the 5770 will go down $15 to $25. Either way it is a win.
they can't lose
if people think, "not enough of an improvement over the 5770" they'll have to pick up the 5850
if not, they'll buy the 5770, or even two
they're not exactly gonna run to nvidia right now are they
If those figures are correct, the power/performance ratio isnt too good. The 5850/5870 looks like a better price/performance and power consumption/performance offering. This is a nasty "SE" edition, for those with long memories. FAIL in my books
could potentially overclock like a beast, the cards arnt even out yet :laugh:
This dosent make much sense to me.
Once its released it will be interesting to compare to a 5850 and 5770
:p
Should over-clock greatly me thinks :D
With the less rops etc it should produce less heat so have extra headroom there too.
I am going to call BS on these figures and wait for the cart itself to be reviewed here at TPU. I think we are all in for a treat.
As I don't think it would.
OMFG whats THAT? I have two 4870's in my system specs!!! HOLY CRAP! how could he say such things!?!?! SURELY he's not suggesting Crossfire and SLI are both worthless and have no performance gains in most games, am I?