ATI

HD 4870

HD 4870
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Effective Speed -1,174%Effective 3D Speed -1,174%Average Score -1,282%Lighting -1,053%, Reflection -1,000%, MRender -1,750%, Gravity -1,324%Overclocked Score -1,125%Lighting -921%, Reflection -1,037%, MRender -1,481%, Gravity -1,059%Value & Sentiment -1,677%User Rating -78%, Market Share -3,275%Nice To Haves -1,013%Parallax -1,328%, Splatting -848%, Parallax -1,532%, Splatting -1,051%, Age -307%

Average Bench: 8.84% (272^nd of 667)

Based on 22,513 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: 8.84% Great: 11%

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Terrible average bench

The ATI HD 4870 averaged 91.1% 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) 12.8fps

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 8.76fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the ATI HD 4870 is just 4.4%. 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) 13.3fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 9.14fps

Average Bench

(Based on 22,513 samples)

Rank 2728.84%

Min	Avg	Max
9.7	Lighting 12.8	15.9
10.8	Reflection 13.3	16.9
6.5	Parallax 9.14	11.8
10.4% 11.8 fps

Min	Avg	Max
6.9	MRender 8.66	11
6	Gravity 8.76	11.5
6.6	Splatting 9.1	11.8
7.07% 8.84 fps

User Benchmarks

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3D DX11

The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

POL-User, 21 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2267) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

10.1% Very poor

Lighting 13.7

Reflection 15.6

Parallax 13

11% 14.1 fps

MRender 9.7

Gravity 11.5

Splatting 11.9

9% 11 fps

DEU-User, 9 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2266) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.16% Terrible

Lighting 11.6

Reflection 12.2

Parallax 8.6

9% 10.8 fps

MRender 8.1

Gravity 11.6

Splatting 8.3

9% 9.33 fps

DEU-User, 5 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2266) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.16% Terrible

Lighting 11.6

Reflection 12

Parallax 10.5

9% 11.4 fps

MRender 8.1

Gravity 11.6

Splatting 8.2

9% 9.3 fps

DEU-User, 7 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2266) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

8.32% Terrible

Lighting 11.6

Reflection 12.2

Parallax 10.3

9% 11.4 fps

MRender 8.1

Gravity 8.9

Splatting 8.2

7% 8.4 fps

BEL-User, 17 hrs ago.HD 4870

Sapphire(174B E104) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

6.43% Terrible

Lighting 9.6

Reflection 11.1

Parallax 7.5

8% 9.4 fps

MRender 7.2

Gravity 5.8

Splatting 7.3

5% 6.77 fps

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Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 48,053,093 GPUs tested.

Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 22,513 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Sapphire(174B E104)	13%	8% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0502)	12%	9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E810)	7%	8% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E115)	6%	11% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2266)	4%	8% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B 0851)	3%	10% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2003)	3%	8% ± 1%
Device(0000 0000)	3%	9% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2700)	2%	10% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2470)	2%	8% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E114)	2%	10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21B4)	2%	9% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E850)	2%	9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 026A)	2%	8% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2267)	2%	10% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0502)	2%	8% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2007)	2%	10% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21C0)	2%	8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E111)	2%	8% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21BC)	2%	9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E118)	1%	11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 031E)	1%	11% ± 1%
Apple(106B 00B2)	1%	10% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2009)	1%	8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2702)	1%	10% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0401)	1%	8% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 3000)	1%	7% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2273)	1%	7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21C7)	1%	8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21CB)	1%	11% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B 0502)	1%	10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E131)	1%	10% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2281)	1%	11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1940)	1%	11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 030C)	1%	11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1510)	1%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 02B4)	1%	11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 036E)	1%	8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21B8)	1%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 01F6)	0%	8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2448)	0%	9% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2445)	0%	10% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0801)	0%	9% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0B04)	0%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031A)	0%	10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0280)	0%	6% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1740)	0%	9% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2472)	0%	8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 8030)	0%	10% ± 1%
XFX(1682 5006)	0%	7% ± 1%

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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 74%, 247,615 samples	2,873x
Core i7-2600Intel $205Bench 72%, 158,627 samples	2,467x
Core i5-2400Intel $20Bench 69%, 151,269 samples	1,721x

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HD 4870ATIBench 9%, 22,513 samples	1x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 65%, 347,774 samples	1,481x
A400 120GBKingston $23Bench 60%, 142,711 samples	812x
Virtual NVMe Disk 275GBParallelsBench 188%, 1,088 samples	653x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 412,543 samples	1,631x
4x2GBUnknownBench 24%, 186,007 samples	1,084x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 153,727 samples	661x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $325

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $295	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-11600K $220	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
Intel Core i7-11700K $315	Nvidia RTX 3080 $700	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $183

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $76	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $74	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $71	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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HD 4870