HIS HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo Review

Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage, on April 28, 2008. It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7.  For today we will be testing focusing on both Performance and Extreme resolutions. The default setting that most people use to compare their scores world wide is 1280×1024 which is referred to as the Performance level.

Looking at the results from the first 2 GPU tests in Vantage we have the HIS 5830 only 3-4 frames per second behind our HIS 5850 at Extreme testing presets. At the lower Performance settings the gap spreads a bit further falling 5-6 frames per second behind the 5850. Considering the 5830 is as much as $100 less expensive it could serve as a very viable option for someone that cant afford to drop $300+ to purchase a 5850. The money saved by purchasing the HIS 5830 could easily score you a small SSD drive or an additional 4GB of DDR III for your system build.

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