ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review

Radeon HD 5830 Specifications

The Radeon HD 5830 is the most affordable member of the HD 5800 Series. Instead of having a simplified Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) much like the HD 5670 (Redwood GPU), it bears a striking resemblance to the more powerful HD 5850 and HD 5870 which are based on the Cypress GPU.

Here are the full specifications of the HD 5830 along with its closest brethren.

Just like the higher end cards, the HD 5830 is based on the Cypress GPU core. The default clock speeds are 800MHz on the core clock and a memory clock of 1000MHz (4000MHz effective). These speeds combined with its 2.15 billion transistors, give this 40nm process GPU a theoretical maximum of 1.79 TeraFLOPs of computing power. To top it off, it features ATI’s new Eyefinity Technology and supports up to 3 monitors simultaneously. You have your choice of four output ports: two dual-link DVI, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort.

The reference design of the card is 11” long and this will be a big issue for those with small cases. Be careful when purchasing your video cards. The worst thing would be to buy your card only to find out later that it cannot fit in your chassis. As a guide, you may use our Video Card Length Database to check whether or not you have enough room. However, some AiBs might feature shorter PCBs.