14 DAY TRIAL // Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the launch of its latest graphics card, part of the outfit's Radeon HD 5800-series, namely the Radeon HD 5830. Designed to provide consumers with a high-performance 5000-series graphics card, the new GPU comes as scaled down version of the 5850, consequently becoming the lowest-performance card in the Cypress family of GPUs. The SEP for the new card, according to the chip maker, is set at US$239.
“The ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card makes enthusiast-level performance even more accessible to gamers, adding another compelling choice to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 5800 series,” said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division. “Cutting-edge features such as full DirectX 11 support, ATI Eyefinity multi-display capabilities and ATI Stream technology position the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card to become a favorite with the gaming community.”
The new card has been featured with 2.15 billion 40nm transistors, 1120 Stream Processing Units, 56 Texture units and 16 ROP units. The card comes with a core speed of 800MHz and has processing power of 1.792 TeraFLOPS (single precision) and 358 GigaFLOPS (double precision). As the other HD 5800-series graphics cards from AMD's current lineup, the new card will integrate GDDR5 memory and provide support for DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and OpenGL 3.2. Designed for high-end gaming, the new card will deliver support for the proprietary ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
The Radeon HD 5830 could end-up as the last of the Radeon HD 5000 series, with AMD now having to wait until NVIDIA unveils its much anticipated Fermi-based GeForce cards. Set to be released on March 26, the new Fermi cards are expected to deliver a considerable performance boost, compared to AMD's current offering. However, AMD still has an advantage, being the first company to deliver hardware support for DirectX 11.