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Average Bench: 16% (162nd of 630)

Based on 7,677 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 6898 Models: AMD Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5800
Poor: 15%Average: 16% Great: 17%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD HD 5870 averaged 83.9% 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) 77.9fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 62.5fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD HD 5870 is just 1.93%. 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) 38fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 80.7fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 7,677 samples)
Rank 16216%
Min Avg Max
40.2 Lighting 77.9 86.4
34.9 Reflection 38 40.7
73.1 Parallax 80.7 88.4
20.5% 65.5 fps
Min Avg Max
24.6 MRender 26.2 28.3
59.3 Gravity 62.5 66.7
41.2 Splatting 43.4 46.3
15.9% 44 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB
Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 9.12.0.0
16.4% Very poor
Lighting 82.8
Reflection 40.4
Parallax 81.2
22% 68.1 fps
MRender 27.8
Gravity 63.3
Splatting 43.6
16% 44.9 fps
Asus(1043 0346) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
16.3% Very poor
Lighting 82.7
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 81.2
22% 67.5 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 63.3
Splatting 43.9
16% 44.5 fps
Asus(1043 0346) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
16.2% Very poor
Lighting 82.7
Reflection 38.5
Parallax 81.1
22% 67.4 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 62.9
Splatting 43.6
16% 44.3 fps
XFX(1682 2961) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
16.1% Very poor
Lighting 81.4
Reflection 38.2
Parallax 80.1
21% 66.6 fps
MRender 26.2
Gravity 62.9
Splatting 43.4
16% 44.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004
16.1% Very poor
Lighting 82.2
Reflection 38.6
Parallax 79.2
22% 66.7 fps
MRender 26.3
Gravity 62.7
Splatting 43.6
16% 44.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
16.1% Very poor
Lighting 81.2
Reflection 38.3
Parallax 79.9
21% 66.5 fps
MRender 26.1
Gravity 62.6
Splatting 43.4
16% 44 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0
15.4% Very poor
Lighting 78.4
Reflection 37
Parallax 76.9
21% 64.1 fps
MRender 24.7
Gravity 60
Splatting 41.8
15% 42.2 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
15.1% Very poor
Lighting 74.8
Reflection 35.4
Parallax 75.2
20% 61.8 fps
MRender 24.3
Gravity 59
Splatting 41.4
15% 41.6 fps
AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008
14.8% Very poor
Lighting 82.6
Reflection 38.5
Parallax 77.9
22% 66.3 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 56.6
Splatting 43.9
15% 42.3 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 23,623,590 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 7,677 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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AMD(1002 0B00) 38% 16% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E140) 17% 16% ± 2%
Asus(1043 032E) 9% 16% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2961) 8% 16% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2960) 6% 16% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0346) 4% 16% ± 2%
PwrHis(1787 2289) 4% 16% ± 2%
PwrHis(1787 200A) 2% 16% ± 2%
Gigabyte(1458 21E5) 2% 16% ± 2%
Apple(106B 00D0) 2% 16% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2100) 2% 17% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0350) 2% 17% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2962) 1% 15% ± 4%
MSI(1462 8032) 1% 16% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E146) 1% 16% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21F0) 1% 15% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B E177) 1% 16% ± 0%
Asus(1043 034C) 0% 17% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0390) 0% 16% ± 0%
Diamond(1092 E140) 0% 16% ± 0%
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Desktop 45%
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Workstation 31%
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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $349Bench 43%, 45,867 samples951x
Core i7 930Intel  $100Bench 45%, 16,719 samples345x
Core i7 960Intel  $270Bench 51%, 10,711 samples192x
GPU
HD 5870AMDBench 16%, 7,677 samples120x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $75Bench 106%, 546,937 samples67x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $89Bench 113%, 450,220 samples63x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $78Bench 107%, 237,869 samples30x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 25,458 samples359x
3x2GBUnknownBench 33%, 32,465 samples251x
3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 25,947 samples176x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 36% - Below average Total price: $424

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