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Radeon HD 5900

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Release date ≤ Q3 2014.

Average Bench: 16.1% (238th of 714)

Based on 57 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 689C Model: ATI Radeon HD 5900
Poor: 13%Average: 16.1% Great: 17%

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Terrible average bench

The ATI Radeon HD 5900 averaged 83.8% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 22fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 16.1fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the ATI Radeon HD 5900 is just 4.49%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the ATI Radeon HD 5900 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 13.1fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 21fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 57 samples)
Rank 23816.1%
Min Avg Max
13.1 Lighting 22 23.7
9.68 Reflection 13.1 14.8
15.2 Parallax 21 23.6
17.9% 18.7 fps
Min Avg Max
9.59 MRender 11 12
15.9 Gravity 18.8 19.9
9.68 Splatting 16.1 18.2
12.7% 15.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AMD(1002 2042) 1GB
Driver: atiu9p64 aticfx64 aticfx64 atiu9pag aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64 Ver. 8.702.0.0
17.2% Very poor
Lighting 23.6
Reflection 13.4
Parallax 21.8
19% 19.6 fps
MRender 10.7
Gravity 18.1
Splatting 18.3
13% 15.7 fps
AMD(1002 2042) 1GB
Driver: atiumd64.dll Ver. 8.663.0.0
17.1% Very poor
Lighting 23.5
Reflection 13.3
Parallax 21.1
19% 19.3 fps
MRender 10
Gravity 18
Splatting 18.2
13% 15.4 fps
Sapphire(174B C000) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.850.0.0
17% Very poor
Lighting 23.5
Reflection 13.5
Parallax 22
19% 19.7 fps
MRender 11.3
Gravity 18.3
Splatting 16.3
13% 15.3 fps
AMD(1002 2042) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 9.2.0.0
16.8% Very poor
Lighting 23.3
Reflection 13.2
Parallax 21.6
19% 19.4 fps
MRender 11.3
Gravity 18
Splatting 16.1
13% 15.1 fps
AMD(1002 2542) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.850.0.0
16.3% Very poor
Lighting 23.6
Reflection 17.5
Parallax 21
19% 20.7 fps
MRender 12
Gravity 18.1
Splatting 9.5
10% 13.2 fps
AMD(1002 2042) 1GB
Driver: atiumd64.dll Ver. 8.663.0.0
15.8% Very poor
Lighting 22.9
Reflection 18.5
Parallax 16.3
19% 19.2 fps
MRender 10.9
Gravity 18.1
Splatting 9.7
10% 12.9 fps
AMD(1002 2042) 1GB
Driver: atiu9p64 aticfx64 aticfx64 atiu9pag aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64 Ver. 8.702.0.0
15.2% Very poor
Lighting 20.5
Reflection 14
Parallax 21.7
17% 18.8 fps
MRender 9.95
Gravity 16.2
Splatting 17.6
12% 14.6 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 2042) 60% 16% ± 1%
Asus(1043 034A) 12% 14% ± 5%
AMD(1002 2542) 11% 17% ± 0%
XFX(1682 3020) 9% 17% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B C000) 5% 17% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E154) 2% 17% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000) 2% 11% ± 0%
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Gaming 14%
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Desktop
Desktop 67%
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Workstation 12%
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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples218x
Core i7 930Intel  $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples87x
Core i7 960Intel  $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples51x
GPU
Radeon HD 5900ATIBench 16%, 57 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples12x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples64x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 47% - Average Total price: $190

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