AMD ATI Radeon HD 5830 GDDR5 1GB PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 11 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

5
Average:

1
Bad:

4

Pros:

Silvertachaward.png, The price might drift down to $200, Unmatched feature set, Fills the huge performance gap nicely, Full 256bit memory architecture, 1.79 TeraFLOPS for < $250 (at launch), HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces included, Wide selection.
Performance in synthetic tests ran close to the costlier Radeon HD 5850

Cons:

Only 1120 Stream Processors, Only 16 ROPs, same as HD5770, GPU clock almost maxed out, Requires more power and cooling than HD5850, Power supply cost may keep card price from falling
Large; uses more power under load than HD 5850; at high resolutions, runs just a few frames per sec ahead of HD 5770

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Last revision on February 22, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Silvertachaward.png, The price might drift down to $200, Unmatched feature set, Fills the huge performance gap nicely, Full 256bit memory architecture, 1.79 TeraFLOPS for < $250 (at launch), HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces included, Wide selection
Performance in synthetic tests ran close to the costlier Radeon HD 5850

Reviewers Didn't Like

Only 1120 Stream Processors, Only 16 ROPs, same as HD5770, GPU clock almost maxed out, Requires more power and cooling than HD5850, Power supply cost may keep card price from falling
Large; uses more power under load than HD 5850; at high resolutions, runs just a few frames per sec ahead of HD 5770

Expert reviews and ratings

AMD is back to serious gaming business with the Radeon HD 5830 after messing around with a few less exciting budget-oriented solutions. While it is very important to provide gamers with a cost effective option, we feel that the Radeon HD 5570 and...

By TechSpot on February 25, 2010

The name of this card is misleading. It's in fact closer to the mid than high-end. Nevertheless though its performance levels mean it is best reserved for mid-resolution screens, it does retain certain advantages: DX11 compatibility and reduced heat...

By DigitalVersus on December 23, 2010

Ever since they launched back in October of last year, ATI's 5xx0 series of cards (codename Evergreen) have been dominating the graphics market. Their combination of class-leading performance, features, and power consumption along with support...

By Trusted Reviews on March 24, 2010

The way the graphics war is going at the moment, it's like AMD is starting its very own game of Battlefield while adding more and more irrelevant spawn points. Its already got heavily armed squads holding onto the three main spawn points; the low,...

By TechRadar on March 15, 2010

We actually held off publishing this review until we could see live prices, as we didn’t believe the £200-or-so prices we were quoted. However, this seems to be the case – where there is stock and pricing, there’s no HD 5830 that...

By Bit-tech.net on February 25, 2010

Average performance, a high price and even higher power draw make this a GPU to avoid...

By PC Pro on February 25, 2010

The performance of the HD5830 GPU is really what this entire review is all about. The design is a derivative of a known entity, or perhaps I should say "entities", since the hard-working chip requires the power supply from the HD5870 in order to...

By Benchmark Reviews on February 24, 2010

This card plugs the DirectX 11 price gap between the mainstream HD 5770 and the enthusiast-level HD 5850. It's fast, but its performance at high resolutions doesn't beat that of much cheaper cards by a whole lot....

By Computer Shopper on February 01, 2010

Putting together these value comparisons is harder than it looks. Oh, sure, looking at our overall value graphs and making broad generalizations is a lot of fun, but it can be quite misleading. You've gotta keep the hidden variables in mind. If this...

By The Tech Report on July 29, 2010

The case against the Radeon HD 5830 was made quite clearly in the value scatter plot on the preceding page. This graphics card's price-performance proposition just isn't terribly attractive. That matters a lot in a product like this one, which...

By The Tech Report on March 01, 2010

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