The 40nm HD 5830 with 2.15 Billion transistors has a clock speed of 800MHz and the shader clock will also be running at the same speed. The 1024 MB GDR5 memory will run at an incredible speed of 4000MHz. The power consumption idle is estimated 25 watts and under full load this should be 175 watts.

The 5830 is the lower-end of the 5800 series which also includes the HD 5870, the HD 5850, all these cards are based on the Cypress chip and will be capable of running DirectX 11.

The package comes with a Crossfire Bridge, two 6-pin power adapters, a 'do not desturb' doorknob hanger, and a voucher for a free download of Aliens Versus Predator.

Differences between the HD-583X-ZNFV, HD-583X-ZNFC and HD-583X-ZAFV models:

The HD-583X-ZNFV comes with Aliens Vs. Predators while the HD-583X-ZNFC is without this game. The HD-583X-ZAFV has a different appearance and probably another cooling solution.

This videocard performs exactly the same as all other HD5830 cards tested, the GPU cooling differs however from the other cards. The GPU gets quite hot, replacing the cooler might be an option. This card was still rock solid stable even when pushed to reach its amazing overclock. But without proper cooling its lifetime could be limited.

Overclocking:

A 100% stable overclock of 900Mhz (100MHz or 12.5% gain) core and 1300Mhz memory (300MHz or 30%), temperatures rose to 90 degrees Celsius during stress testing.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, 3DMark06, Far Cry 2, Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, Devil May Cry 4, Crysis, Crysis WarHead, Heaven DX11 Benchmark, DIRT2, Stalker: Call of Pripyat,

Compared to:

• his hd 4850 icooler
• his hd 4870 iceq4+ 1gb
• his hd 4890 icooler x4
• his hd 5670
• his hd 5750
• his hd 5770
• his hd 5830
• sapphire hd 4770
• sapphire hd 4850 x2
• sapphire hd 5570
• sapphire hd 5770
• sapphire hd 5830 game edition
• sapphire vapor-x hd 4850
• xfx black edition 9800gtx+
• xfx hd 4770
• xfx hd 5770

Test Setup:

• Processor : Intel QX9770 Extreme
• HDD : Maxtor 250GB
• Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Premium
• Memory : 2GB DDR2 Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC-8500
• OS : Windows Vista Ultimate

The XFX 5830 has a special cooling solution but this card is not overclocked and still has the 'official' stock speed. With this card you'll get a Lifetime Warranty that means that even if you sell this card, the buyer will have the same rights.

The price tag is set in between the HD5850 and the HD5770, the HD4890 1GB will be taken off the market and the new 5830 can be seen as its replacement. This video card uses the Cypress core, you'll find the same chip as the HD5850 and HD5870, cores that didn't pass the tests for the higher segment in the 5800 series will be used for the 5830.

This card was compared to the Sapphire HD 5830, HD 5850 and 5870 both with 1GB, ATI HD 4890, EVGA GTX 260, 275, 285 and 295.

Conclusion: Next to a very good cooler and cooling performance the card sometimes surpasses the HD5770 but sometimes it's also very close, you'll get a free game and of course as mentioned before there's a double lifetime warranty. There should have been a balance of pricing and performance, when it came down to cutting the people of XFX have cut a bit to much, except perhaps for the card's size wich can be considered as big.

Test Setup: CPU: Core i7 920 OCed @ 4.0Ghz with Turbo Mode -- Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 -- DDR3 Memory: Corsair 6GB Dominator 1600Mhz -- CPU Air Cooling: CoolIT Boreas mTEC with a Scythe Fan Controller. -- PSU: Corsair HX1000W. -- All testing was done with the Windows 7 Ultimate x64 edition

Overclocking: The reviewers did not perform any overclocking.

Benchmarks: Batman Arkum Asylum, Borderlands, Dawn of War II, DiRT 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead 2.

march 12 2010

Preview by techreport

The XFX HD 5830 has a single DisplayPort, one HDMI, and two DVI ports in back and a pair of six-pin power connectors on the board's opposite edge, The cooling is in a Zalman-inspired direction that seems to radiate quite a bit of heat with a minimum of fan noise.

Unfortunately there's no inclusion of a modern DX11 game that could help the HD 5830's relatively weak value proposition, just Aliens Versus Predator is included in the bundle.

The XFX 5830 is available for app. $250.- and prices will probably not be lowered untill the shortage of 40-nm GPUs is over.

march 12 2010

Review by motherboards.org

The XFX HD 5830 was compared to the XFX radeon 5850, the MSI R5770 HAWK and the XFX radeon 5670. These tests were done on an Intel X58SO mobo with 3GB Kingston DDR3-1600MHz @ 1333MHz, unfortunatley the processor was not mentioned.

Gaming performance:

Dirt 2 has features like Shader Model 5 and Tessellation and The game runs without problems on the HD 5830 with high frame rates in every resolution.

Aliens versus Predator is a First Person Shooter (FPS) and comes bundled with the HD 5830 and is very playable @ 1920x1200 without the FSAA and AF.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is playable with high frame rates throughout the game but unfornuatley it uses the uses DX9.

Conclusion: The HD 5830 performs in between a HD 5770 and a HD 5850 card, as was allready indicated by its price. As mentioned above it supports DirectX 11 features which keeps it ahead of NVIDIA products in the same price range. It'salso less power- consuming. compared to the older DX10 its price is almost the same and performance-wise the 4890 beats the 5830. In 3dmark 2006 it was only 2.6% faster than the MSI 5770 while in Vantage the difference was 34.2%.

Benchmarks: BattleForge DX10, HAWX DX 10.0/10.1, Batman Arkham Asylum DX 10, Resident Evil 5 DX10, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with FRAPS, Dirt2 benchmark, Crysis Warhead FRAPs benchmark, Uniengine Heaven Benchmark DX11, 3d mark 2006 and Vantage.