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HD 5870

Average Bench: 19.4% (189th of 681)

Based on 10,248 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800
Poor: 18%Average: 19.4% Great: 20%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 5870 averaged 80.5% 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) 27.7fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 21.1fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5870 is just 1.91%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD HD 5870 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 20.5fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 24.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 10,248 samples)
Rank 18919.4%
Min Avg Max
26.6 Lighting 27.7 28.9
19.8 Reflection 20.5 21.4
23.5 Parallax 24.8 27.8
22.4% 24.3 fps
Min Avg Max
13 MRender 13.7 14.4
20.3 Gravity 21.1 22
10.9 Splatting 11.1 11.5
16% 15.3 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
19.5% Very poor
Lighting 27.7
Reflection 20.7
Parallax 27.9
22% 25.4 fps
MRender 13.9
Gravity 21.3
Splatting 11.2
16% 15.5 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
19.5% Very poor
Lighting 27.7
Reflection 20.7
Parallax 24.7
22% 24.4 fps
MRender 13.8
Gravity 21.2
Splatting 11.2
16% 15.4 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
19.5% Very poor
Lighting 27.6
Reflection 20.4
Parallax 24.9
22% 24.3 fps
MRender 13.9
Gravity 21.3
Splatting 11.2
16% 15.5 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
19.5% Very poor
Lighting 27.6
Reflection 20.6
Parallax 24.8
22% 24.3 fps
MRender 13.8
Gravity 21.3
Splatting 11.2
16% 15.4 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
19.4% Very poor
Lighting 27.4
Reflection 20.5
Parallax 24.6
22% 24.2 fps
MRender 13.7
Gravity 21.2
Splatting 11.2
16% 15.4 fps
XFX(1682 2961) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
18.9% Very poor
Lighting 26.6
Reflection 19.9
Parallax 24.3
22% 23.6 fps
MRender 13.5
Gravity 21
Splatting 11
16% 15.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0
17.2% Very poor
Lighting 24.4
Reflection 18.1
Parallax 21.8
20% 21.4 fps
MRender 11.9
Gravity 18.7
Splatting 9.9
14% 13.5 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,402,110 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 10,248 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 39% 19% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E140) 17% 20% ± 1%
Asus(1043 032E) 9% 19% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2961) 8% 19% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0346) 5% 19% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2960) 5% 19% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 3% 19% ± 1%
Apple(106B 00D0) 3% 20% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21E5) 2% 19% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 2% 20% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E146) 2% 19% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2962) 2% 20% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0350) 1% 20% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 21F0) 1% 20% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8032) 1% 20% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2100) 1% 20% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0390) 0% 20% ± 0%
Device(1545 1002) 0% 19% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21E6) 0% 20% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034C) 0% 20% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 18%
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Desktop
Desktop 73%
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Workstation
Workstation 15%
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System: Dell Studio XPS 9100

CPU
Core i7 930Intel  $137Bench 66%, 20,531 samples567x
Core i7 960Intel  $259Bench 68%, 16,826 samples288x
Core i7-920Intel  $311Bench 65%, 67,922 samples81x
GPU
HD 5870AMDBench 19%, 10,248 samples88x
SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 112%, 572,494 samples45x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 770,272 samples37x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $140Bench 111%, 807,368 samples24x
RAM
M378B5773DH0-CH9 6x2GBSamsungBench 50%, 138 samples45x
HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 6x2GBHynixBench 49%, 157 samples45x
NT2GC64B8HC0NF-CG 6x2GBNanyaBench 51%, 106 samples33x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 56% - Above average Total price: $277

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Poor

3 months ago.

stopped working out of the blue

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Excellent

9 months ago.

отлично работает, тихая, мощная

Dariex
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Good

20 months ago.

Compatible with macs and powerful enough to run some games at low settings.

zaiba
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Poor

2 years ago.

My club3D blower style version just gradually broke down over a 5 year period. This was a seller replacement of my defective 5870 XFX version after a single week.

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