ATI Radeon HD5830

[Astennu]

HD5830:

- Higher power consumption than HD5850
- Only 16 ROPs, and has lower pixel fillrate than HD5770 at stock speeds


I don't think it will be much faster than HD5770, and at the same time it will consume more power than even HD5850. Thats really dissapointing

Owh yes it will. You dont even know what the impact is of those robs. You dont know what the load is on the 5770 that also has 16 rob's. And offcource AMD whants you to buy the 5850 or 5870 rather then the 5830.

I think the performance will be closer to the HD5850 compared to the 5770. I dont think those ROB's will bottelnek it a lot.

[Lokinhow]

HD5830:

- Higher power consumption than HD5850
- Only 16 ROPs, and has lower pixel fillrate than HD5770 at stock speeds


I don't think it will be much faster than HD5770, and at the same time it will consume more power than even HD5850. Thats really dissapointing

lower pixel fillrate but 31% higher compute power, 40% more stream processors, 31% higher texture fillrate and 66% higher memory bandwidth

[Piotrsama]

Too bad I can't see the OP pics at work (filtered by the firewall).
Somebody care to post the official specs??

I can see this pic, though.... Are those the official specs for the 5830?

Thanks in advance

Wow take it ez with the laser ati. I thought this thing would have more shaders, that makes the 5850 the value leader for cypress

[Lokinhow]

Too bad I can't see the OP pics at work (filtered by the firewall).
Somebody care to post the official specs??

I can see this pic, though.... Are those the official specs for the 5830?

Thanks in advance

Core clock: 800MHz
Stream Processors: 1120
Compute power: 1.79Teraflops
TMUs: 56
Texture fillrate: 44.8 GTexel/s
ROPs: 16
Pixel fillrate: 12.8 GPixel/s
Z/Stencil: 51.2 GSamples/s
Memory Clock: 4GHz GDDR5
Bandwidth: 128GB/s
Maximum board power: 175W
Idle board power: 25W

[naokaji]

Somebody care to post the official specs??

Stream Processors: 5830 = 1120, 5850 = 1440
Texture Units: 5830 = 56, 5850 = 72
ROPS: 5830 = 16, 5850 = 32
With Transistor count staying the same as with the 5850, so its cut down and no new chip.
Memory: 5830 = 5850
In return for the cut down you get 75mhz higher gpu clock.

[Teemax]

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

Bingo

[Frank M]

ROBS

robs.
rob's.
ROB's

It's ROP ffs.

Too bad I can't see the OP pics at work (filtered by the firewall).
Somebody care to post the official specs??

1120 sp @ 800 MHz, 56 Tex, 16 ROP, 256bit @ 1GHz GDDR5, 25-175W

[Astennu]

HD5830:

- Higher power consumption than HD5850
- Only 16 ROPs, and has lower pixel fillrate than HD5770 at stock speeds


I don't think it will be much faster than HD5770, and at the same time it will consume more power than even HD5850. Thats really dissapointing

Some extra info. The HD5830 had way higher clocks then the 5850. You know how "small" the difference between the 5850 and 5870 is.

According to some the HD5830 "only" has 1.79 Gflops. And the 5850 has 2.09 Gflops. Well time to wake up ? the HD5870 has 2.72. The high 800 Mhz clocks for the 5830 really help.

Next Mem Bandwith. HD5850 has 20% less compared to the 5870. With the 5830 its the same as the 5850. So no loss there.

As for the shaders and texture units its the same drop as from 5870 to 5850.

Then the "Major" issue the ROB's they went from 32 to 16. Well i dont think that will give a big performance hit. AMD doubled them with the RV870 because the rest also doubled.

And i dont know the design but i think they grouped the ROPs somehow so they can only disable 16 at a time. But i can be wrong.

But still i think the 16 rops are fast enough to power those 320 extra shaders. You might see a small hit in 8x AA performance but i doubt it will be mind blowing.

Overall the 5830 will be closer to the 5850 in terms of performance compared to the 5770. So you guy's worry to much.

TDP is a absolute maxium. I think it will use less or the same amount of power that the 5850 uses.

It's ROP ffs.



1120 sp @ 800 MHz, 56 Tex, 16 ROP, 256bit @ 1GHz GDDR5, 25-175W

Yees sorry. I'm only human :s

[SKYMTL]

Some interesting info:

- Some AIBs will be using HD 5870 PCBs but with revised (budgetary) power distribution sections. This also makes them slightly longer than a HD 5850.

- Cards sent directly from AMD to reviewers use a carbon copy of the HD 5870 PCB + PCB components + heatsink which is likely why the card can clock so high. It may also contribute to the higher power consumption listed in AMD's documents.

- Other board partners are using HD 5770 PCBs

- Every card I have seen has a different cooler

- Price isn't listed as $200. Rather, AMD only lists a price of UNDER $250. That can mean $249 and below which I am guesisng will be dictated by the board partner's component choices.

[zalbard]

Some interesting info:

- Some AIBs will be using HD 5870 PCBs but with revised (budgetary) power distribution sections. This also makes them slightly longer than a HD 5850.

- Cards sent directly from AMD to reviewers use a carbon copy of the HD 5870 PCB + PCB components + heatsink which is likely why the card can clock so high. It may also contribute to the higher power consumption listed in AMD's documents.

- Other board partners are using HD 5770 PCBs

- Every card I have seen has a different cooler

- Price isn't listed as $200. Rather, AMD only lists a price of UNDER $250. That can mean $249 and below which I am guesisng will be dictated by the board partner's component choices.

to all of them...
Guess only 5850 is really worth buying out of the whole 5xxx line up, sadly, at least if you're looking for optimal price/performance ratio.

[Hell Hound]

Fermi will determine prices this summer.

[Piotrsama]

Thanks Lokinhow, naokaji and Frank M for the answers.

[eric66]

Some interesting info:

- Some AIBs will be using HD 5870 PCBs but with revised (budgetary) power distribution sections. This also makes them slightly longer than a HD 5850.

- Cards sent directly from AMD to reviewers use a carbon copy of the HD 5870 PCB + PCB components + heatsink which is likely why the card can clock so high. It may also contribute to the higher power consumption listed in AMD's documents.

- Other board partners are using HD 5770 PCBs

- Every card I have seen has a different cooler

- Price isn't listed as $200. Rather, AMD only lists a price of UNDER $250. That can mean $249 and below which I am guesisng will be dictated by the board partner's component choices.

5830 sounds like fail lol whatever seems ati got lazy and greedy again

[labs23]

5830 sounds like fail lol whatever seems ati got lazy and greedy again

Preferably not lazy, but unwisely greedy, they could make one 8800GTish. All because there ain't a pressure to make one though, not yet.

[SKYMTL]

Before passing judgement, wait for the reviews. ATI wanted something that slots into the large gap between the HD 5770 and HD 5830 and I think they will achieve that. In the end, it all comes down to pricing and I am sure some board partners will be pretty aggressive on that front.

[demonkevy666]

the difference here between 5770 and 5830 is 256 bit vs 128 bit. fill rate seems slightly lower then 5770, but textures are higher, 50mhz lower core speed too. Also thought this card was going to have 1280 shaders :/

[Piotrsama]

Before passing judgement, wait for the reviews. ATI wanted something that slots into the large gap between the HD 5770 and HD 5830 and I think they will achieve that. In the end, it all comes down to pricing and I am sure some board partners will be pretty aggressive on that front.

+1

Let's wait to see what kind of performance this part will deliver.

[Caparroz]

Before passing judgement, wait for the reviews. ATI wanted something that slots into the large gap between the HD 5770 and HD 5830 and I think they will achieve that. In the end, it all comes down to pricing and I am sure some board partners will be pretty aggressive on that front.

That's what all of you guys that already have the 5830 in your hands are hinting and that's what I expect from reading the specs.

A really nice card to fill the gigantic gap between 5770 and 5850 for ~$220'ish. Closer to the 5850, I believe. And like you said, the market will be flooded with dozens of simplier PCB designs and cooling that will sell for $199.

Depending how it goes, this can be the perfect card for replacing my "old" 4890. I don't game a lot anymore and for the games I play (Silent Hunter 4 and race sims) the 4890 is hardly breaking a sweat @ 1920x1080 except with 8xAA

[Helloworld_98]

5830 seems fail, although I'd like to see what ASUS, Powercolor and XFX have up their sleeves when it comes to it before buying the 5850.

1GHz a la carte and it might be worth looking forward too.

[Mungri]

I wouldnt bother with judging or comparing clock speeds on the 5000 series cards. They are all 40nm and most can reach up to 1 Ghz on stock cooling using MSI Afterburner.

I dont think using a 5870 PCB is good, they should at least be shorter than a 5850 since they are lower specified.

[Andi64]

My only concern is voltage control. Most of the non-reference designs use a cheap voltage controller without software control, that will make 1Ghz core clock almost impossible.

I love ATi reference designs, including the cooler, I'll chose a HD5830 with any ATi PBC over any non-reference, in most cases cheap, Sapphire or PowerColor design.

[mursaat]

It is better than a HD5770, so if you were waiting for a card between that one and the HD5850 you should consider getting it.

The thing is at least in paper its not between 5770 and 5850, but 1/4 up from 5770, and between in price?

[Mysterfix]

I'd wait for proper reviews before passing judgement. Since when is ATI in the business of putting out cards without any idea of what it's capable of.

[BrowncoatGR]

I think it's quite possible AMD might not want this card to become too popular as they might be forced to laser cut large numbers of working chips to fulfill demand. In any case let's see where this card lands before we start dissing it.

[Helmore]

The things we know about this card thus far at least make me not regret buying a 5850.