AMD Radeon HD 5830 Review

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If you have been keeping a close eye on the computer graphics industry, you have probably noticed that, for a few months now, Advanced Micro Devices has managed to stay one step ahead of its main competitor, NVIDIA. That's mainly because of the Radeon HD 5xxx-series of GPUs the outfit released back in late September 2009, a move that put AMD ahead of NVIDIA, thanks to the features enabled on the new cards.

Full read here: AMD Radeon HD 5830 Review - The card that's meant to fill the gap - Softpedia
 

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