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HD 5870

Average Bench: 17.8% (145th of 625)

Based on 7,317 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800
Poor: 9%Average: 17.8% Great: 19%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 5870 averaged 82.1% 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) 78.6fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 61.9fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5870 is just 10.3%. 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) 37.8fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 26.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 7,317 samples)
Rank 14517.8%
Min Avg Max
40.1 Lighting 78.6 86.5
33.2 Reflection 37.8 40.7
57.2 Parallax 79.8 88.4
20.4% 65.4 fps
Min Avg Max
23.2 MRender 26.1 28.3
51.4 Gravity 61.9 66.7
37.8 Splatting 43 46.4
14.6% 43.7 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
19% Very poor
Lighting 85
Reflection 39.7
Parallax 83.2
22% 69.3 fps
MRender 27
Gravity 65.2
Splatting 45.1
15% 45.8 fps
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
19% Very poor
Lighting 85.2
Reflection 39.8
Parallax 83.1
22% 69.4 fps
MRender 26.9
Gravity 64.8
Splatting 44.9
15% 45.5 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.4% Very poor
Lighting 82.1
Reflection 38.5
Parallax 80.7
21% 67.1 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 63.1
Splatting 43.8
15% 44.4 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.4% Very poor
Lighting 82
Reflection 38.4
Parallax 80.5
21% 67 fps
MRender 26.2
Gravity 62.8
Splatting 43.6
15% 44.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
18.1% Very poor
Lighting 80.1
Reflection 37.1
Parallax 80.2
21% 65.8 fps
MRender 26.2
Gravity 62.8
Splatting 43.7
15% 44.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
8.26% Terrible
Lighting 35.2
Reflection 19
Parallax 38.3
9% 30.8 fps
MRender 13.5
Gravity 29.1
Splatting 20.6
7% 21.1 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 21,548,193 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 7,317 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 36% 18% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B E140) 17% 18% ± 3%
XFX(1682 2961) 11% 18% ± 1%
Asus(1043 032E) 9% 18% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2960) 7% 18% ± 2%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 3% 17% ± 4%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 3% 18% ± 2%
Asus(1043 0346) 3% 18% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21E5) 2% 18% ± 3%
Apple(106B 00D0) 2% 17% ± 3%
MSI(1462 2100) 2% 18% ± 3%
MSI(1462 8032) 1% 16% ± 4%
Asus(1043 0350) 1% 19% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E146) 1% 17% ± 4%
XFX(1682 2962) 1% 16% ± 6%
Gigabyte(1458 21E6) 0% 20% ± 0%
Asus(1043 038C) 0% 19% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0390) 0% 19% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E177) 0% 18% ± 0%
Diamond(1092 E140) 0% 14% ± 7%
Gigabyte(1458 21F0) 0% 13% ± 0%
Device(1545 1002) 0% 9% ± 0%
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Gaming 21%
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Desktop 46%
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Workstation 31%
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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $259Bench 44%, 40,580 samples862x
Core i7 930Intel  $91Bench 45%, 15,239 samples327x
Core i7 960Intel  $270Bench 50%, 10,323 samples179x
GPU
HD 5870AMDBench 18%, 7,317 samples113x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $70Bench 105%, 491,389 samples63x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $107Bench 112%, 382,161 samples58x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 107%, 209,220 samples24x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 23,685 samples327x
3x2GBUnknownBench 33%, 30,031 samples237x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 24,606 samples159x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 39% - Below average Total price: $329

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