The XFX Radeon HD
5830 is one of many new Cypress-based DirectX 11 video cards released by ATI
partners in the last few weeks, to great anticipation in the marketplace. Each
of the HD5830 cards was designed by the individual AIB partners and there
really are no two that are alike, except for minor variations sold side-by-side
by a few companies. The high clock rate of the HD-5830 GPU, and its 2 billion
plus transistor count, made this design a challenging one for many of the
suppliers. The HD-583X-ZNFV graphics card from XFX uses some new power supply
technology and a classic cooler design to simplify the Radeon 5xxx design a bit
and cut costs, without sacrificing quality or performance. Benchmark Reviews
has a retail sample in our lab; let's see how well XFX executed on their
strategy. @ Benchmark Reviews
