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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 15.1% (246th of 713)

Based on 15,020 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6899 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800, ASUS EAH5850, ATI Radeon HD 5850
Poor: 14%Average: 15.1% Great: 16%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 5850 averaged 84.9% 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) 21.8fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 16.4fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5850 is just 2.09%. 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) 17.6fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 19.6fps

Average Bench

(Based on 15,020 samples)
Rank 24615.1%
Min Avg Max
20.2 Lighting 21.8 23.1
16.5 Reflection 17.6 18.7
17.8 Parallax 19.6 21.8
17.7% 19.6 fps
Min Avg Max
10.9 MRender 11.8 12.6
15.8 Gravity 16.4 17.4
9.3 Splatting 9.55 10.1
10% 12.6 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
PwrHis(1787 2290) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.6% Very poor
Lighting 22.4
Reflection 18.1
Parallax 20.3
18% 20.3 fps
MRender 12.1
Gravity 17.1
Splatting 10
10% 13.1 fps
PwrHis(1787 2290) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
15.6% Very poor
Lighting 22.4
Reflection 18.2
Parallax 20.5
18% 20.4 fps
MRender 12.1
Gravity 17
Splatting 9.9
10% 13 fps
Asus(1043 0330) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15% Very poor
Lighting 21.5
Reflection 17.4
Parallax 19.5
18% 19.5 fps
MRender 11.8
Gravity 16.4
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.6 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
15% Very poor
Lighting 21.5
Reflection 17.5
Parallax 19.7
18% 19.6 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 16.4
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.5 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15% Very poor
Lighting 21.5
Reflection 17.5
Parallax 19.5
18% 19.5 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 16.4
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.5 fps
Asus(1043 0348) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
14.9% Very poor
Lighting 21.4
Reflection 17.4
Parallax 19.4
17% 19.4 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 16.4
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.5 fps
XFX(1682 2971) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
14.8% Very poor
Lighting 21.3
Reflection 17.3
Parallax 19.4
17% 19.3 fps
MRender 11.6
Gravity 16.3
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.5 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
14.7% Very poor
Lighting 21.1
Reflection 17.1
Parallax 19.5
17% 19.2 fps
MRender 11.4
Gravity 16.3
Splatting 9.5
10% 12.4 fps
Sapphire(174B E146) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
3.28% Terrible
Lighting 4.7
Reflection 3.9
Parallax 4.3
4% 4.3 fps
MRender 2.6
Gravity 3.6
Splatting 2.1
2% 2.77 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 28% 15% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E140) 13% 15% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E174) 10% 15% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2970) 10% 15% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0330) 7% 15% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0348) 5% 15% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2972) 5% 15% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2290) 4% 16% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B 174B) 3% 15% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 3% 15% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21E4) 3% 16% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E150) 3% 15% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2091) 2% 15% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E146) 2% 16% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2971) 1% 15% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8034) 1% 16% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034E) 1% 15% ± 1%
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Gaming 14%
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Desktop
Desktop 65%
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Workstation
Workstation 11%
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Motherboard: Asus P6T SE

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples524x
Core i7 930Intel  $145Bench 64%, 19,497 samples230x
Core i7-950Intel  $84Bench 66%, 36,389 samples194x
GPU
HD 5850AMDBench 15%, 15,020 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $25Bench 66%, 424,288 samples74x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples54x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $77Bench 105%, 762,998 samples36x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples219x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples147x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples141x
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2 years ago.

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

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Excellent

3 years 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).

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