ATI Radeon HD 5830 in Detail

The Radeon Hd 5830 in our easily is a massive 28cm long and weighs roughly 1kg. Surprisingly, that'due south a larger footprint than the Radeon Hd 5850 and the same equally the 5870, despite being a cut-down version of both. Its dimensions besides match those of the Radeon Hard disk 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 285, which means in that location will be several cases out in that location that cannot fit this total-size graphics card -- at to the lowest degree not this reference version.

Cooling the Cypress LE GPU is a fairly large aluminum heatsink, made up of 36 fins measuring thirteen.5cm long, 6.5cm broad and 2.5cm alpine. Continued to the base of the heatsink are four copper heatpipes that help better efficiency. Finally, cooling this heatsink is a 75x20mm blower fan that draws air in from within the case and pushes it out through the rear of the graphics card.

For the most function this fan operates very quietly, helped by the impressively low 25 watt idle consumption of the Radeon HD 5830. When gaming the fan will spin up as the menu can consume upwardly to 175 watts under load, but even with the increased thermal stress the 5830 does not scream at intolerable levels.

The heatsink and fan are enclosed within a custom housing that conceals the entire graphics carte. AMD has been using a like design for its entire range from the Radeon HD 5700 series and up, as has done Nvidia with their most prized graphics cards for some fourth dimension, such as the GeForce GTX 295.

It is worth noting that although our review sample bares peachy resemblance to the Radeon HD 5870, AMD mentioned that manufacturers volition be releasing their ain take on the Radeon Hard disk 5830 from day 1 rather than a months down the road. If this is true, today you will encounter a dozen or so new Radeon Hard disk 5830 products being accounted, most of which will feature their own unique design.

The PCI Limited slot lone volition non be enough to power this high-end graphics card, so you can expect all boards to have in common a pair of half-dozen-pin PCI Limited ability connectors to feed the Radeon HD 5830. This is the same configuration that y'all will detect on the older Radeon Hd 4870/4890 and GeForce GTX 285 cards.

Naturally, the Radeon HD 5830 supports Crossfire and therefore in the standard position we find a pair of connectors for bridging two or more cards together. The only other connectors can be establish on the I/O panel and these include two dual DVI connectors forth with HDMI and DisplayPort sockets. Similar all Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards, a maximum resolution of 2560x1600 on up to iii monitors is supported.