ATI Radeon HD5830

[Mungri]

Its looking more like a 5790 to me too, but the 256 bit memory would put it into the 5800 category as thats the main difference, though a 5770 with 1120 shaders for less cost would have been awesome.

I dont reckon the extra performance from two of these would be worth the cost or power consumpsion over a pair of 5770s @ 1 Ghz, but individually they fit the gap between 5770 and 5850 nicely.

I'd still rather pick 5850s instead for 'enthusiast', or 5770s for 'price to performance'.

The problem with the 5800 range this time around is the vastly reduced number of shaders, whereas 4800s just differed with clock speeds I think.

Ive been converted to crossfiring the *770 cards from now on anyway, I'm waiting for the 6770 later this year .

Also, according to Ati, Im no longer an enthusiast, but rather a performance something ... A perthusiast, or enthusimence maybe???

I hate confusing charts.