MSI HD 5830 Twin Frozr II
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AMD released their Radeon HD 5830 Series in late February this year. The card is based on the same Cypress GPU as on the Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870, but in order to reach their performance target, AMD has disabled some shader units as well as two ROP units. This results in a card that is roughly comparable to HD 4890 in performance, but offers all the new features from the HD 5000 Series like EyeFinity and DirectX 11.
MSI uses their well known TwinFrozr II cooler on this card, the specifications have remained the same however.
| Radeon HD 4870 | Radeon HD 5770 | Radeon HD 4890 | GeForce GTX 260 | MSI HD 5830 | GeForce GTX 275 | Radeon HD 5850 | Radeon HD 5870 | |
| Shader units | 800 | 800 | 800 | 216 | 1120 | 240 | 1440 | 1600 |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 16 | 28 | 32 | 32 |
| GPU | RV770 | Juniper | RV790 | GT200 | Cypress | GT200 | Cypress | Cypress |
| Transistors | 956M | 1040M | 959M | 1404M | 2154M | 1404M | 2154M | 2154M |
| Memory Size | 512 MB | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 896 MB | 1024 MB | 896 MB | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Memory Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 448 bit | 256 bit | 448 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Core Clock | 750 MHz | 850 MHz | 850 MHz | 620 MHz | 800 MHz | 602 MHz | 725 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 900 MHz | 1200 MHz | 975 MHz | 1050 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1107 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Price | $155 | $155 | $200 | $200 | $270 | $230 | $300 | $400 |