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HD 5870

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

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Average Bench: 20.9% (146th of 620)

Based on 6,702 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800
Poor: 11%Average: 20.9% Great: 23%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD HD 5870 averaged 79.1% 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) 76.6fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 61fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5870 is just 12.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 5870 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 37.2fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 25.7fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 6,702 samples)
Rank 14620.9%
Min Avg Max
37.9 Lighting 76.6 85.6
18.9 Reflection 37.2 40.5
38.6 Parallax 78.4 88.2
23.9% 64 fps
Min Avg Max
13.5 MRender 25.7 28
29.8 Gravity 61 66.1
20.7 Splatting 42.4 46.2
18.7% 43 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
22.5% Poor
Lighting 83.8
Reflection 39.6
Parallax 83.5
26% 69 fps
MRender 27.1
Gravity 65.3
Splatting 45.3
20% 45.9 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
22% Poor
Lighting 82.2
Reflection 38.3
Parallax 87.1
26% 69.2 fps
MRender 26
Gravity 62.4
Splatting 43.3
19% 43.9 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
21.9% Poor
Lighting 82.3
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 80.6
25% 67.2 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 63.1
Splatting 43.8
19% 44.4 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
21.7% Poor
Lighting 82.2
Reflection 37.8
Parallax 79.9
25% 66.6 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 62.7
Splatting 43.4
19% 44.1 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0
21.4% Poor
Lighting 80.7
Reflection 36.6
Parallax 80.2
25% 65.8 fps
MRender 24.4
Gravity 61.5
Splatting 43.5
19% 43.1 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
21.1% Poor
Lighting 78.6
Reflection 38.2
Parallax 77.8
24% 64.9 fps
MRender 25.1
Gravity 61.2
Splatting 42.8
19% 43 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 18,428,137 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 6,702 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 42% 21% ± 3%
Sapphire(174B E140) 14% 21% ± 3%
Asus(1043 032E) 9% 22% ± 2%
XFX(1682 2961) 8% 21% ± 3%
XFX(1682 2960) 6% 21% ± 3%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 4% 21% ± 3%
Asus(1043 0346) 3% 20% ± 4%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 3% 20% ± 3%
Gigabyte(1458 21E5) 2% 21% ± 3%
Apple(106B 00D0) 2% 21% ± 3%
Sapphire(174B E146) 1% 23% ± 2%
Asus(1043 0350) 1% 23% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8032) 1% 22% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2100) 1% 23% ± 0%
Asus(1043 038C) 1% 23% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21F0) 1% 20% ± 4%
Asus(1043 0390) 0% 22% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034C) 0% 9% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2962) 0% 21% ± 0%
Diamond(1092 E140) 0% 21% ± 0%
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Gaming 24%
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Desktop
Desktop 47%
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Workstation 34%
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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $200Bench 47%, 38,359 samples748x
Core i7 930Intel  $120Bench 49%, 13,125 samples286x
Core i7 960Intel  $262Bench 54%, 9,512 samples151x
GPU
HD 5870AMDBench 21%, 6,702 samples100x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $104Bench 106%, 476,103 samples56x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $103Bench 114%, 354,977 samples55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $70Bench 107%, 160,974 samples20x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 20,436 samples279x
3x2GBUnknownBench 34%, 27,280 samples213x
3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 22,317 samples135x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 69% - Good Total price: $304

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