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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 9.24% (310th of 714)

more Based on 22,563 user benchmarks.  Devices: 1002 9440, 1002 9442, 1002 944C, 1002 9460 Models: ATI Radeon HD 4800, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1.1), AMD Radeon HD 4800, ATI Radeon HD 4870
Poor: 7%Average: 9.24% Great: 12%

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Terrible average bench

The ATI HD 4870 averaged 90.7% 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) 12.6fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 8.99fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the ATI HD 4870 is just 4.43%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the ATI HD 4870 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 13.2fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 9.11fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 22,563 samples)
Rank 3109.24%
Min Avg Max
9.8 Lighting 12.6 15.9
10 Reflection 13.2 16.9
6.5 Parallax 9.11 11.8
10.3% 11.6 fps
Min Avg Max
6.43 MRender 8.56 11
5.5 Gravity 8.73 11.7
6.3 Splatting 8.99 11.8
7.2% 8.76 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Sapphire(174B E115) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
11% Very poor
Lighting 15
Reflection 15.8
Parallax 11
12% 13.9 fps
MRender 10.3
Gravity 10.5
Splatting 11
9% 10.6 fps
Sapphire(174B E114) 2GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
10.5% Very poor
Lighting 14.4
Reflection 14.9
Parallax 10.2
12% 13.2 fps
MRender 9.7
Gravity 9.8
Splatting 10.3
8% 9.93 fps
PwrHis(1787 2267) 512MB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
10.2% Very poor
Lighting 13.6
Reflection 15.2
Parallax 10.3
11% 13 fps
MRender 9.9
Gravity 10
Splatting 10.5
8% 10.1 fps
Sapphire(174B E104) 512MB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
8.06% Terrible
Lighting 10.9
Reflection 11.6
Parallax 8.1
9% 10.2 fps
MRender 7.5
Gravity 8.2
Splatting 7.9
6% 7.87 fps
Sapphire(174B E810) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
7.97% Terrible
Lighting 10.8
Reflection 11.3
Parallax 8.1
9% 10.1 fps
MRender 7.4
Gravity 7.7
Splatting 8
6% 7.7 fps
Dell(1028 0502) 512MB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
7.96% Terrible
Lighting 10.8
Reflection 11.7
Parallax 8
9% 10.2 fps
MRender 7.3
Gravity 7.7
Splatting 8
6% 7.67 fps
XFX(1682 5006) 512MB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
7.7% Terrible
Lighting 10.3
Reflection 10.9
Parallax 10.1
8% 10.4 fps
MRender 7.4
Gravity 7.7
Splatting 8
6% 7.7 fps
Sapphire(174B E111) 1GB
Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001
6.9% Terrible
Lighting 9.3
Reflection 10.8
Parallax 6.5
8% 8.87 fps
MRender 7
Gravity 6
Splatting 7.3
6% 6.77 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 67,470,813 GPUs tested

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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Sapphire(174B E115) 10% 11% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0502) 10% 9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E104) 9% 8% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E810) 9% 8% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2266) 4% 8% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000) 4% 9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E114) 3% 10% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2700) 2% 12% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E850) 2% 10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0851) 2% 10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E131) 2% 10% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2267) 2% 10% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2470) 2% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 026A) 2% 9% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2003) 2% 8% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0502) 2% 8% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E111) 2% 8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0502) 2% 10% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1510) 2% 8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2448) 2% 10% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21C0) 2% 8% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00B2) 1% 10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21B4) 1% 9% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2007) 1% 10% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1530) 1% 8% ± 0%
Diamond(1092 E104) 1% 8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E118) 1% 12% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2273) 1% 8% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2009) 1% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 01F6) 1% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0278) 1% 10% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 1% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031A) 1% 10% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2701) 1% 11% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2702) 1% 11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 031E) 1% 10% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B 114A) 1% 10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0388) 1% 11% ± 0%
AMD(1002 0B04) 1% 8% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2281) 1% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 024E) 1% 8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21B8) 1% 9% ± 1%
Asus(1043 01F8) 0% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0282) 0% 8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1940) 0% 11% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21EA) 0% 8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 5006) 0% 8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2445) 0% 10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1531) 0% 7% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E800) 0% 10% ± 0%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,023x
Core i7-2600Intel  $192Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,568x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples932x
GPU
HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,563 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples821x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples456x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples424x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples516x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples376x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
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