Thursday, July 15th 2010

Radeon HD 5830 Gets Price-Cuts, Takes Aim at GeForce GTX 460

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btarunr
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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.

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84 Comments on Radeon HD 5830 Gets Price-Cuts, Takes Aim at GeForce GTX 460

#76
Cheeseball
Not a Potato
Just get a HD 5830, you can crossfire the HD 5850 with it.
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#77
evillman
Get some more bucks and get another 5850.
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#78
PopcornMachine
TheMailMan78So what do you guys think? Should I sell my 5850 and get two 5830's?
I wouldn't. Just wait a while for 5850 prices to come down.
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#79
Imsochobo
PRoblem:

5830 isnt in such high volumes as 5850 and 5870, too god yields...
Lowering 5830 would result in instant! "sold out"
I still think this may sell out 5830's and decrease price of 5850 and 5870 by a small amount soon.


I say, congratz nvidia with a good enough videocard in the market, just 8-9 months ? after ATI.
Hope you can start to continue with this trend.
You know 5870 costs 3600 norwegian krones now, at launch it cost 2800, and that was expensive....
they can cut price to 1700 krones, ( GTX460 price) today... and by some time to 1300-1400.

for UK £ remove 1x "0" then you have prices in your beloved quid! for the rest of you guys, cant compare due to tax levels and such, i think my description is good enough for the picture of the case for ATI.
the prod cost of 5870 is just a tad higher than 4870 that went to 1000 nok! so 1300-1400 is not a "overstatement"
Guess amd isnt thinking ati was a bad purchase now :P
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#81
Wile E
Power User
Mussels4870x2 is not faster. i had a 4870 crossfire setup (exactly the same as your x2, performance wise) and my 5870 shits all over it.
No it doesn't unless the 4870 crossfire was CPU bottlenecked.
Musselsthe 4870x2 is literally two 4870's stuck together in 8x/8x crossfire - its exactly the same.
No, it's not 8+8. The PLX chip makes it 16+16 with a little latency overhead, just like bridge chips on mobos.
Musselsthe thing is, they're similar in DX9, 5870 is faster in DX10, and well, DX11 is obvious.

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.
Again, no it isn't. Why do you think I don't get excited over 5870's? They perform pretty much just like a 4870X2 but adds DX11. DX11 is not worth the $400 it would cost a 4870X2 owner to upgrade.
TheMailMan78So what do you guys think? Should I sell my 5850 and get two 5830's?
No. Buy another 5850 instead. Unless, of course, you want to sell it to me for like $50, then yes, you should definitely sell it. :D
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#82
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
Wile E... i personally tested one 4870, 4870 crossfire, and my 5870 on a wolfdale and thuban system. the 5870 was superior on both. Moreso in games, than benchmarks.
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#83
Unregistered
TheOnlyHeroI have a small Question . Why the card is 200 $ in US and 200 pounds in UK ?
Ho makes the cost of the products ? why the people in europe have to pay more for the same article ?:eek:
It's called TAXES. UK has the most expensive products in Europe, just like Japan is the most expensive country in Asia, and not only... 200$ in US? Well, in Japan is ~300$, and even more if you buy it from the local store.:banghead::banghead::banghead::mad:
#84
Wile E
Power User
MusselsWile E... i personally tested one 4870, 4870 crossfire, and my 5870 on a wolfdale and thuban system. the 5870 was superior on both. Moreso in games, than benchmarks.
That's just in your system then. Check out w1z's reviews, the 4870X2 is actually a hair faster in many games that are not DX11. Even the DX10 titles.
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