In the test 15 years ago: the Radeon HD 5830 was too expensive or slow

In the test 15 years ago: the Radeon HD 5830 was too expensive or slow 1 comment

With the ATI Radeon HD 5830 (test), AMD has completed the internal high-end series of the first DirectX 11-network graphics cards. With a GPU mastered for a little less money, however, it wasn’t all that attractive compared to larger models.

Summary :

Less computing power with the same memory

Like the larger Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 models, the Radeon HD 5830 relied on the RV870-GPU. In the case of the HD 5830, this was reduced to 224 shader units instead of the 288 shader units of the Radeon HD 5850. The lower number of computing units equalized the graphics card at least partially with higher clock frequencies. This resulted in a theoretical computing power of 1,792 Gflops, while the larger model came in at 2,090 Gflops.

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The cut in ROPS was considerable, of which only 16 were active instead of the 32 of the Radeon HD 5850. As a result, the pixel filling rate with 12.8 gpix/s was almost halved compared to the 23.2 gpix/s of the Radeon HD 5850. 128 GB/s identical. With a price of 229 Euro, the Radeon HD 5830 was a little cheaper than the 280 Euro Radeon HD 5850, but was in a generally similar price segment.

RADEON HD 5770 RADEON HD 5830 RADEON HD 5850 RADEON HD 4890 GEFORCE GTX 275 CHIP RV840 / Juniper RV870 / Cypress RV790 GT200B TRANSISTRATIONS REPRX. 1.04 billion approx. Around 2.15 billion. 959 million approx. 1.4 billion. Chiptakt 850 MHz 800 MHz 725 MHz 850 MHz 633 MHz Shaderstakt 850 MHz 800 MHz 725 MHz 1404 MHz Shadher Units
(MADD) 160 (5d) 224 (5d) 288 (5d) 160 (5d) 240 (1d) Flops (MADD / ADD) 1.360 Gflops 1.792 Gflops 2.090 Gflops 1.360 Gflops 1.011 Gflops ROPS 16 32 16 28 pixelfullrate 13,600 MPIX / S 12,800 MPIX / S 23,200 MPIX / S 13,600 MPIX / S 17,724 MPIX / S TMUS 40 56 72 40 80 Taus 40 56 72 40 80 Texelfüllrate 34,000 Mtex / S 44,800 MTEX / S 52,200 MTEX / S 34,000 Mtex / S 50,640 MTEX / S Shader-Model sm 5 SM 4.1 SM 4 Hybrid-cf / -sli – Windows effecktive
Electricity Exposure Function ✓ – ✓ Solid Quantity 1024 MBR5 896 MBYTE GDDR3 Storage Clock 2000 MHz 1.950 MHz 1.134 MHz Recording 256-bit 448-bit Memory Bandwidth 76,800 MBI

Lower class in performance

As expected based on the specifications, the Radeon HD 5830 placed a little below the Radeon HD 5850, but well above the Radeon HD 5770. How strong are these differences in the selected resolution and quality settings. Without edge smoothing enabled or anisotropic filtering, it was about 25% ahead of the Radeon HD 5770 and 15% behind the Radeon HD 5850. If edge smoothing and anisotropic filtering were turned on, the image changed. In this case, the Radeon HD 5830 was almost 16-20% faster than the smaller model, but was 25-26% behind the Radeon HD 5850.

At volume, the Radeon HD 5830 was able to leave a good impression at a distance of 15 cm with 44.5 dB (a), while it clearly stood up under load with 53 dB (a) and ranked close to the Radeon HD 5870. The GPU temperatures were in the green with less than 80 ° C. The graphics card, on the other hand, could not convince when it came to performance. In order to enable the high clock rates of the GPU, AMD had to increase the voltage and therefore ensured that the Radeon HD 5830 took more power than the larger and faster brother Radeon HD 5850. For users who wanted to provoke the Radeon HD Radeon 5830 could be expected with about 10% more power using overclocking.

Conclusion

Overall, the Radeon HD 5830 was a successful graphics card, but was overpriced for what was offered. The much faster and more efficient Radeon HD 5850 was only 50 euros more expensive, while the slower Radeon HD 5770 was almost cheaper. The Radeon HD 5830 offered too little performance to justify the price.

In the category “in the test 15 years ago”, the editorial team has taken a look at the test archives every Saturday since July 2017. We list the last 20 articles published in this series below:

The GeForce GTX 280m in the 5.6 kg notebook. The Radeon HD 5450 was useless for gaming, but otherwise tops Top Blow-Koloss Grand Kama Crossdie Geforce GT 240 with 1024 mbyte DDR3 was Senselessamds Radeon HD 5670 Bot Directx 11 was a Spar-Spone for 270 Advantage euroder SSDs over HDDs Alltamrazers Orochi for mobile enjoyment via BluetoothBlackberrys Bold 9700 was a smartphone aspiring Super Mario Bros. was also a cheap hitnvidias Geforce GT 240 must have been tired. CPU Air-Cooler The Radeon HD 5970 was fast and jerky Corsairs 800D was ideal for Apphire water cooling, the Radeon HD 5750 brought a recommendation to a recommendation on three displays Satis Radeon HD 5750, despite 115 Euro RRP 2 silent compatble top blown. Cooleratis Radeon HD 5770 offered DirectX 11 from 140 Eurodie Radeon HD 5850 as an affordable DirectX 11 entry

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