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HD 5870

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

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Average Bench: 21% (124th of 597)

Based on 5,985 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800
Poor: 11%Average: 21% Great: 23%

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Very poor average bench

The AMD HD 5870 averaged 78.9% 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) 77.4fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 61.3fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5870 is just 12.4%. 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) 37.4fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 25.8fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 5,985 samples)
Rank 12421%
Min Avg Max
39.3 Lighting 77.4 86.4
19 Reflection 37.4 40.7
38.6 Parallax 78.7 88.7
24.1% 64.5 fps
Min Avg Max
13.2 MRender 25.8 28.2
30 Gravity 61.3 66.5
20.7 Splatting 42.6 46.2
18.8% 43.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 032E) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
22.1% Poor
Lighting 82.9
Reflection 38.7
Parallax 81.2
25% 67.6 fps
MRender 27.9
Gravity 63.6
Splatting 44
20% 45.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
22% Poor
Lighting 82.5
Reflection 38.7
Parallax 81.1
25% 67.4 fps
MRender 27.7
Gravity 63.3
Splatting 43.9
20% 45 fps
Sapphire(174B E146) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
21.8% Poor
Lighting 82.7
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 80.3
25% 67.2 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 62.8
Splatting 43.7
19% 44.3 fps
XFX(1682 2961) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
21.8% Poor
Lighting 81.7
Reflection 38.4
Parallax 80.4
25% 66.8 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 63
Splatting 43.8
19% 44.4 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
21.5% Poor
Lighting 79.5
Reflection 37.5
Parallax 80.1
25% 65.7 fps
MRender 26
Gravity 62.4
Splatting 43.5
19% 44 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
21.4% Poor
Lighting 79.2
Reflection 37.4
Parallax 79.3
24% 65.3 fps
MRender 25.7
Gravity 62.3
Splatting 43.3
19% 43.8 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 12,071,189 GPUs tested.

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 41% 21% ± 3%
Sapphire(174B E140) 14% 21% ± 3%
XFX(1682 2961) 9% 21% ± 2%
XFX(1682 2960) 8% 20% ± 4%
Asus(1043 032E) 7% 21% ± 3%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 5% 22% ± 2%
Asus(1043 0346) 4% 21% ± 3%
Apple(106B 00D0) 3% 22% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 1% 21% ± 4%
MSI(1462 8032) 1% 20% ± 5%
Sapphire(174B E146) 1% 21% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21F0) 1% 18% ± 6%
Asus(1043 034C) 1% 20% ± 5%
Asus(1043 0390) 1% 18% ± 6%
MSI(1462 2100) 1% 23% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0350) 1% 23% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21E5) 1% 22% ± 0%
Asus(1043 038C) 0% 22% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2962) 0% 22% ± 0%
Device(344C 0B00) 0% 22% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E177) 0% 15% ± 0%
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Gaming 24%
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Desktop 48%
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Workstation 34%
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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $330Bench 47%, 30,912 samples462x
Core i7 930Intel  $393Bench 49%, 11,392 samples197x
Core i7 960Intel  $272Bench 54%, 6,757 samples104x
GPU
HD 5870AMDBench 21%, 5,985 samples78x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $80Bench 106%, 319,548 samples43x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $97Bench 111%, 263,223 samples40x
Ultra II 480GBSanDisk  $90Bench 87%, 16,629 samples14x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 14,307 samples176x
3x2GBUnknownBench 35%, 20,163 samples148x
9GBUnknownBench 40%, 1,611 samples94x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 59% - Above average Total price: $410

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