While NVIDIA is waiting to the Fermi architecture to go into mass production AMD is already up to a high tempo on the same market. Days from now it launch the first budget cards of the Radeon HD 5600 series, but by the end of the month, on January 25th, it will unveil a new addition to the Radeon HD 5800 series. AMD follows the scheme from the Radeon HD 4000 family and the card will be called Radeon HD 5830.
Exact specifications, as in the number of shader processors or clock frequencies, are still unclear. Our sources suggests that Radeon HD 5830 will use GDDR5 memory and offer performance on the line of AMD’s Radeon HD 4890 card, but at a lower price.
We’re guessing the design will be the same as the more powerful siblings, but even if the price hasn’t been set it would be nice with a card from the Radeon HD 5800 series that costs less that $200. In a few weeks we will know more.
pretty safe to guess that its going to be a 5770+256 bit memory …but i am noob when it comes to the design… would you need a redesign (the chip itself) if you need a wider memory bus ?? please don’t make fun of me…
hahhaha…GPUs get outdated very fast. HD 4870 is a nice card, it will be enough for another year or two
I am waitng for HD 5670…it will be the most anticipated card after HD 5770& 5850
Where are you quoting those prices from.It isn’t that large,is it?
I thought pricing the 5830 would be the biggest problem but this seems roomy enough.
We all get burned once in a while mate
I’m stuck with a 1st Gen Sapphire 4850 512Mb and I even had to shell out for after market cooling.
the damn thing OCs like hell though but its another thing that I only had to for Crysis and Warhead.
The DX11 support doesn’t interest me much,its the fact that the 5830 will take slightly less power than the 4850 yet perform better than a 4890 that’s giving me itchy fingers but nothing doing until Crysis 2 comes along,the 4850 will do just fine for Bioshock2
…but i am noob when it comes to the design… would you need a redesign (the chip itself) if you need a wider memory bus ?? please don’t make fun of me…
