AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price

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• heflys - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - link

  Are you kidding Anandtech? Who in their right mind would buy a 4870 over a 5770? Hell, they're pretty much even in performance, and the 5770 possesses more features.

• kallogan - Sunday, March 14, 2010 - link

  Not to mention they're so quiet and their low power consumption allow upgrades even on a weak PSU.

• Alouette Radeon - Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - link

  Nope, AnandTech's last great review of something (by that I mean intelligent and unbiased) was the review of the Phenom II X4 920 and 940. I applauded AnandTech for that on other boards because AnandTech didn't drink Intel's kool-aid at the time. AnandTech didn't do the idiotic thing like other sites and compare the Phenom II X4 to the i7. No, AnandTech did the RIGHT thing and compared it to the Core 2 Quad Q8200 and Q9400 (I think those were the Q #'s). That was the day I REALLY got into reading AnandTech because all other sites were left in the dust. I also applauded AnandTech for having the balls to point out that the GTS 250 was just a rebranded 9800 GTX+ regardless of the consequences and even posted Charlie's article about it. Those were the days when AnandTech was the best review site I'd ever seen. Those days are unfortunately...over.

• nickime - Saturday, February 27, 2010 - link

  long reader of anandtech but with this article for me you have lost all credibility, am not a fanboy, but it has become so obvious
  
  for once AMD is executing like a clock, it is not their fault that there is no competition (but maybe you can blame them for that as well) and they can charge premium on their products
  
  if they renamed and offered 4790 as 5830 might have pleased you but then it might not as it would come from wrong company
  
  won't be checking this site that often anymore, will try to time it with Nvidia releases, have a nice day

• piroroadkill - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - link

  Ho ho ho, I see what you did there
  
  Actually, I don't, this is just retarded

• UnBiasedGuru - Friday, February 26, 2010 - link

  It seems that Anandtech takes pride in using outdated Catalyst drivers to run their tests here. It is a shame that they are too lazy to re-run the tests with newer drivers.
  
  It is a deception to its readers/members to use HORRIBLE drivers and attempt to use the results as an indicator of the ATI card's performance. None of you should listen to any of these results because Anandtech nor Guru3D can be trusted.
  
  You will see the other websites with reviews on the 5830 actually use the 8.703 and 10.3b drivers ---> All all ATI cards!!!
  
  Shame on you Anandtech for misleading the community and public. How much is Nvidia paying you? Your results don't match ANY of my results with the 5870. You are a bogus reviewer!

• Alouette Radeon - Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - link

  Haven't you figured it out? nVidia isn't paying AnandTech. It's Intel that's behind this. AnandTech has been Intel's pet puppy for almost a year now. The idea isn't to hurt ATi for nVidia's sake but to hurt AMD for Intel's sake. Just read any Intel review and I swear that AnandTech sounds like they want to date that criminal organization the way that they coo and fawn over everything Intel does.

• Voo - Friday, February 26, 2010 - link

  Yeah so because they used older cards for the RV770 chips which more or less don't profit from new drivers at all (didn't read anything in the release notes and didn't noticed any performance gains with my 4870), the 5830 didn't perform as well!
  
  That's absolutely logical! I mean the bad karma of old drivers - for other cards - just horribly disturbed the 5830 and that's why it ended up, being.. as bad as in the 3dguru review :(

• silverblue - Friday, February 26, 2010 - link

  Send me a test rig and a 5830 and I'll give it a go ;)

• Hrel - Friday, February 26, 2010 - link

  I wouldn't be willing to spend a pennny over 150 for this card; and I feel that's generous. The GTS250 was going for 110 for a while; and this card is only a little faster. It has DX11, which is a requirement at this point in time, and not a feature. And it is faster, but only to the amount that I'd expect this far into the future; in relation to the GTS250. In other words, it's the same class card, but for some reason it's selling for over twice as much; that's just stupid. I understand price drops got out of hand last generation; which is why I say 150. Really, excluding the 5850 and 5870 I'm really really disapointed with the performance of the 5000 series.