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HD 5850

Average Bench: 12.7% (187th of 630)

Based on 9,239 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6899 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800, ASUS EAH5850, ATI Radeon HD 5850
Poor: 12%Average: 12.7% Great: 14%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 5850 averaged 87.3% 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) 64.1fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 48.8fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5850 is just 1.92%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 5850 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 32.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 64.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 9,239 samples)
Rank 18712.7%
Min Avg Max
37.7 Lighting 64.1 71
28.5 Reflection 32.9 35.6
53.6 Parallax 64.2 72.4
16.8% 53.7 fps
Min Avg Max
20.7 MRender 22.8 25.2
45 Gravity 48.8 52.1
34.6 Splatting 37.4 40.1
12.6% 36.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 0330) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
12.9% Very poor
Lighting 66.7
Reflection 33.3
Parallax 64.4
18% 54.8 fps
MRender 23.9
Gravity 49.2
Splatting 37.6
13% 36.9 fps
XFX(1682 2971) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
12.7% Very poor
Lighting 66.2
Reflection 33
Parallax 64.1
17% 54.4 fps
MRender 22.7
Gravity 48.9
Splatting 37.4
13% 36.3 fps
Sapphire(174B E174) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.250.18.0
12.7% Very poor
Lighting 65.9
Reflection 34.3
Parallax 63.5
17% 54.6 fps
MRender 23.6
Gravity 48.5
Splatting 35.7
13% 35.9 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
12.7% Very poor
Lighting 64.8
Reflection 33.2
Parallax 69.6
17% 55.9 fps
MRender 22.6
Gravity 48.8
Splatting 37.4
13% 36.3 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 23,623,590 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 9,239 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 25% 12% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E140) 15% 13% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2972) 8% 13% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2290) 7% 13% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2970) 6% 13% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0330) 6% 12% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E174) 6% 12% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0348) 6% 13% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E150) 4% 13% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E146) 3% 13% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034E) 2% 13% ± 2%
MSI(1462 2091) 2% 12% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2971) 2% 13% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8034) 2% 13% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B 174B) 2% 13% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 2% 13% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21E4) 2% 13% ± 2%
Diamond(1092 E140) 1% 13% ± 1%
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Typical HD 5850 Builds (Compare 7,058 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
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Gaming 19%
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Desktop
Desktop 49%
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Workstation
Workstation 33%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R - $210

CPU
Core i7-950Intel  $297Bench 48%, 23,683 samples2,264x
Core i7 930Intel  $100Bench 45%, 16,719 samples1,665x
Core i7-920Intel  $349Bench 43%, 45,867 samples675x
GPU
HD 5850AMDBench 13%, 9,239 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $75Bench 106%, 546,937 samples361x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $89Bench 113%, 450,220 samples300x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $78Bench 107%, 237,869 samples159x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 25,458 samples1,302x
3x2GBUnknownBench 33%, 32,465 samples971x
3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 25,947 samples917x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 41% - Average Total price: $582

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USA-User
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Good (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

Gets the job done. Pretty fast for a 10 year old graphics card.

JPN-User
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2,494

Good

9 months ago.

Today, of course, it is an old card. But if you get one for free, and you are not a heavy player (but watch video, etc.), it still does pretty much everything you need. Can You Run It! said that a certain video game (Battletech) would not run on this card at all. It did (and wasn't even terrible).

IagoX_009
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Poor

17 months ago.

Built on the Terascale architecture it was the first AMD which supported the DirectX 11 API. Launched on 2009 this GPU shows its age when used in modern titles, the lack of support from the manufacturer and game developers have done gaming on this GPU a really bad time. I'll say that the 1GB model is a big NO while the rare 2GB one may perfom better. Any way, take in account this GPU will require a 600W PSU if you don't want to run in problems, if you're thinking in this GPU as an upgrade note that a GT 1030 (30W) or even a GTX 750 1GB (75W) model will deliver higher perfomance with a fraction of the power draw (160W) and also a bigger case is required.

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