First look at AMD's latest "Evergreen" GPU
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5830 has already had its specification leaked and detailed, but Chinese website IT168 has today continued to undermine AMD's upcoming launch by releasing official product shots of various Radeon HD 5830 cards.
The latest addition to AMD's enthusiast-orientated HD 5800-series line is said to feature a 40nm GPU clocked at 800MHz, 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at an effective 4,000MHz and 1,120 stream processors arranged in 14 SIMD units.
We've recently suggested that the HD 5830 could well be a HD 5870 core that didn't make the cut and found itself rebadged with fewer features, but what's interesting here is that the leaked images imply that all of AMD's partners have unique Radeon HD 5830 designs.
It's therefore logical to assume that AMD hasn't created a reference PCB, and is instead providing just the HD 5830 ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) to its partners for implementation on a custom board. Looking at Sapphire's card above, it's almost identical to the HD 5850 Vapor-X, further suggesting that the HD 5830 is a toned-down 5850/5870 core.
Pictures of HD 5830 cards from GIGABYTE, PowerColor, XFX and HIS are available on page two - and it looks as though HIS will be bundling its card with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Itching to know exactly how well the cards will perform? Stay tuned for a definitive verdict in the upcoming HEXUS.net review.
