ATI RADEON HD 5830

Specifications

Gpu Code Name	Cypress
Engine Clock	800 Mhz
Video Memory	1gb
Memory Clock	1000 Mhz ddr5
Memory Data Rate	4.0 GBps
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory bandwidth	128 GB/sec
Compute Performance	1.792 TeraFLOPS
Texture units	56
DirectX	11
Bus Interface	PCIE 2.1 x16
Shader Model	5.0
DVI	Yes, Max.Resolution-2560x1600
VGA	Yes, Max.Resolution-2048x1536
HDMI	Yes( V 1.3), Max.Resolution-1920x1200
Display-Port	Yes, Max.Resolution-2560x1600
Hdcp Support	Yes
Ati Eyefinity	Yes up to 3 displays
CrossfireX Support	Yes, Hardware crossfire ( Up to 4-way)
Maximum board power	175 watts ,Requires two 6- pin power connectors (Min. power supply of 500 Watts required)

Features

• 2.15 billion 40nm Transistors
• Terascale 2 unified processing architecture with 56 texture units
• GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX 11 support
• OpenGL 3.2 support
• Image quality Enhancement Technology(up to 24xAA and 16xAF)
• Ati Eyefinity multi-display technology
• Ati stream acceleration technology (OpenCL support and accelerated video encoding, transcoding and upscaling)
• Support for dual, triple and quad crossfirex
• ATI powerplay power management technology 
• ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Verdict

The ATI 5000 series has been out for a while now and to be honest ati had to fill the gap between its 5770 and 5850 lineup as the huge price difference between them was not justified. Tadaa!!! Here comes the ATI 5830. So what does it have to offer in a world where even 1/10 th of a second gap can literally lose a F1 championship( I like F1 J)?

 It outperforms the 5770 fair n square and equals the performance of an ATI 4890 and beats it when overclocked. It also comes very close to the performance of a Nvidia GTX 460 but stops at a noticeable distance. The cypress core and the memory overclocks good achieving roughly 20% more boost. At 1920x1200, you can achieve great gameplay at high settings in any game out there and also satisfactory gameplay under lower settings at 2560x1600.When crossfired, you don’t need to worry about upgrading for the next two-three years. The card idles at about 25 watts and the cooling solution seems to work well keeping the card under 75 degrees under full load.

However, one thing to notice is that it pulls 175 watts versus 151 and 188 watts on the 5850 and 5870 respectively. It is not fairly priced at $200 because the 5850 costs about $40 more and performs much faster giving you a low electricity bill. And also there’s fierce competition from the green camp with their similarly priced GTX 460 which beats the 5830 easily. If you want eyefinity to play games proudly across three monitors, opencl, direct compute performance or crossfire your existing 5830 then this is the way to go for a budget of $200. Otherwise, the GTX 460 is the clear option to go with.

Pros

● Great performance for $200

● Cool temperatures with Quiet cooling solution

● Overclocking

● Eyefinity

● Low idle power usage

Cons

● Eats more power than 5850 and5870 under full load

● GTX 460 offers better performance for similar price

NOTE: The features mentioned above may vary according to different manufacturer’s models.