ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review

Wow, good catch on the 275 thing... Looks like somebody was assuming instead of looking at the actual performance numbers?

Unless, of course, they were going by the overclocked numbers of the 5830, but that's comparing apples and oranges if everything else on the list is stock.

Just to weigh in on the GTX 275 numbers. Quickly canvassing reviews from Xbit, Anand, Tech Power Up and Hexus the breakdown looks like:
1680............58 benchmarks ( GTX275 = 38, HD 5830 = 18, tied = 2)
1920............65 benchmarks (GTX 275 = 45, HD 5830 = 18, tied = 2)
2560............29 benchmarks (GTX 275 = 23, HD 5830 = 6)

Locally at least the GTX 275 is still in stock- $NZ399 ($US278). The HD 5830 isn't listed here, although as a rough pricing guide the cheapest HD 5850 is $US341, and the HD5770 $US195.

I've checked through quite a few online reviews of this card as it is a likely upgrade for many of my customers once the HD 4890 and GTX 275/260 OC parts run down. As the card is a salvage part of the HD 5850 (which is itself a salvage part of the HD 5870) I'm more interested in the uniformity of these cards regarding the defects the dies carry and how wide a discrepency the fusing off has affected the cards concerned. Are all HD 5830's created equal you might say. Given that testing setups and regimes will differ from site to site, probably the best indicator of relative uniformity within the cards would be power draw. Comparing the power draw to the HD 5850 it seems that there is quite a large variable in how efficient these cards are:
[H]OCP for instance had power consumption at 20 watts less than the HD 5850, while Tweaktown tested the HD 5830 at 36 watts more than the HD 5850 * -quite a large variation
considering both cards were AMD/ATI "reference" cards presumably both assembled by PC Partner (AMD's reference card builder and parent company of Sapphire) both cards could be considered "equal"-this could lead to wild variations in standard and overclocked performance and heat output/temps in addition to power draw if repeated in production.

Anyway, that's my 2c on the matter, for what it's worth.

* Other sites power draw HD 5830/5850 analysis :Xbit recorded identical power draw, bit-tech, Hexus, TechPowerUp and Rage 3d at 1-5 watts more for the 5830, Firing Squad at 12w and Anand at 15w more for the HD 5830 respectively.

Idk what 4870 card you had, but in Crysis my 4870 scores 44.53 fps in 1680x1050 and all High settings, with stock clocks. I'm also somewhat skeptical about your crossfire claims in Crysis.

who post are you referring to guest?

The ATI 5830 outperforms the ATi 4890 in many occasions.......As you can see from the benchmarks......The 5xxx series performed remarkably well in 2560X1600 resolutions..........A user who has a small 19" monitor need not invest on buying the 5830 or the 5850......most 19" monitors have 1280x768 resolutions and investing on such high resolution gpu is pointless....Instead he could buy the 4890 as it shows only marginal difference in fps in may games........The 5xxx series is suited for users who have a larger 23" monitors or the users who compute with multiple monitors with ATI eyefinity technology........

You should check up on this article. At the beginning you make mention of the smaller XFX card. Apparently they weren't able to make it. If you check their website it's the same size as the others now.

No, I always find the red rooster conclusions unusual.
It's kind of a raging roided ragging rude and wreckless roundabout way for them to "support the underdog", tell a bunch of lies, justify their stupidity in their *****ic purchase, make up for the GSOD's, lack of PhysX Cuda and openCL, and all the rest of the crap they put up with owning the low rent dirtball card, ati.
So, in order to make up for it they go on wild spinning sprees that would make most politicians blush.
They're really good at it, they fool eachother all the time.
It's like being pop culture cool and a tool at the same time.
So that's what they do, just claim a wad of BS, repeat it to each other and everyone else, then pretend that's what everyone should believe.
It's like a wussy with estrogen and PMSD controlling everything they think and say.
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Thanks for counting. I know it was a hassle, I've had to do it before a LOT. They lie all the time.

LOL troll much? What was the rant all about? I have to say that made absolutely no sense but I am getting the feeling that you have shares in Nvidia…

Two months late....maybe Guest was one of the Fermi engineers

Or may be it turned so expensive that he is unable to buy one for himself?