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
If you read the posts you will also see people bitching about the price increases.
Also this...
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107823&highlight=5850
In case you missed the first time I posted it.
It could be that Wizzard used Newegg prices on that chart and it wouldn't be the first time. But at launch day, which was 22 September, MSRP was 399 and 299 and every single review from that day says the same.
I still cought it at relatively low price, but some models were over 300 EUR at that time. I got it for around 230-240 EUR and those who bought it sooner, even less. Kick ass performance card.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GTX_460_Cyclone_OC_768_MB/33.html
Now you can pick these up for as little as $200, now that's great price performance there :rockout:
I cant honestly comment on the 5870 beating the 4870X2 im just going by the results on Wizz's reviews :ohwell:
Drop all the prices!!
ATi, give us the HD5890 and drop the prices rest of the evergreens if you truly want to make nV squirm!:nutkick:
Afterall, we all know how cheap the HD5000s are for you to make, so what you got to lose? We all buy a another card from you (ATi), you get your sales, we get our unnecessary performance boosts and colossal epeens! Yipeeee...:roll:
Then maybe I can even xfire for the 1st time with 2xHD5850s!!!:rockout:
Fact is $200 for that performance is just incredible.
The one thing i learned which isnt obvious, is that the crossfire setups require more CPU power to run. when i moved to my 5870, some games i was CPU limited in, my FPS skyrocketed (upto 100FPS more in the CoH benchmark, for one outstanding (and very unique example) - on average it was only a 10-20FPS boost, but it was a boost nonetheless (that was on my 4.2GHz wolfdale)
460's are out here in aus already, and they're about $40 cheaper than the cheapest 5830's at the same stores. the price drop will hit eventually, but in the meantime the 460 768MB is quite a good card for the price.
edit: my 4870's didnt clock well, it was only a 5-10% boost at best.