AMD today introduced its midrange DirectX 11 graphics card – the ATI Radeon HD 5830 for a price tag under $250 USD. Based on Cypress GPU at 800 MHz clock speed and 2.15 billion 40nm transistors, features 256-bit memory interface, ATI Eyefinity Technology, CrossFireX support and 1GB GDDR5 VRAM.
“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.”
Features:
- 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
- TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1120 Stream Processing Units
- 56 Texture Units
- 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 16 Color ROP Units
- GDDR5 memory interface
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unit
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 3.2 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology1
- Three independent display controllers
- Drive up to three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays1
- Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
- Three independent display controllers
- ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL™ 1.0 support
- DirectCompute 11 support
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling2,3
- Native support for common video encoding instructions
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology4
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
- ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology5
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling6
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and Adobe Flash7
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support8,9
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP10
- Max resolution: 2560×160011
- Integrated DisplayPort output
- Max resolution: 2560×160011
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920×120011
- Integrated VGA output
- Max resolution: 2048×153611
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support12
- Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
- ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology5
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
- Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
Speeds & Feeds
- Engine clock speed: 800 MHz
- Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS
- Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS
- Polygon throughput: 800M polygons/sec
- Data fetch rate (32-bit): 179.2 billion fetches/sec
- Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 44.8 Gigatexels/sec
- Pixel fill rate: 12.8 Gigapixels/sec
- Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 51.2 Gigasamples/sec
- Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
- Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
- Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
- Maximum board power: 175 Watts
- Idle power: 25 Watts
Source: AMD