ATI

HD 4870

HD 4870
BENCHMARKS (14,661)
GAME FPS
MKT (0.1%)
BUILDS
(1)

Average Bench: 10.6% (231^st of 621)

Based on 14,661 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: 8%Average: 10.6% Great: 13%

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Terrible average bench

The ATI HD 4870 averaged 89.4% 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) 36.8fps

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 25.6fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the ATI HD 4870 is just 5.5%. 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) 27.6fps

Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 19.1fps

Average Bench

(Based on 14,661 samples)

Rank 23110.6%

Min	Avg	Max
27.2	Lighting 36.8	47.3
23	Reflection 27.6	34.4
21.1	Parallax 28.7	36.3
10.5% 31 fps

Min	Avg	Max
14.9	MRender 19.1	23.2
17.8	Gravity 25.6	33.5
25.4	Splatting 33	43.3
10.6% 25.9 fps

User Benchmarks

Bench

3D DX9

3D DX10

3D DX11

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

GRC-User, 12 hrs ago.HD 4870

AMD(1002 0502) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

13.2% Very poor

Lighting 46.3

Reflection 33.9

Parallax 35.6

13% 38.6 fps

MRender 23.1

Gravity 31.6

Splatting 43.2

13% 32.6 fps

SWE-User, 9 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2007) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

12% Very poor

Lighting 41.9

Reflection 30.4

Parallax 31.9

12% 34.7 fps

MRender 20.6

Gravity 30

Splatting 38.2

12% 29.6 fps

ITA-User, 18 hrs ago.HD 4870

Sapphire(174B E810) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.85% Terrible

Lighting 34.5

Reflection 27.6

Parallax 28.9

10% 30.3 fps

MRender 18.6

Gravity 21.7

Splatting 31.4

10% 23.9 fps

USA-User, 16 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2267) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.3000

9.8% Terrible

Lighting 42.7

Reflection 31.3

Parallax 32.5

12% 35.5 fps

MRender 21.2

Gravity 29

Splatting 1.4

8% 17.2 fps

LUX-User, 10 hrs ago.HD 4870

MSI(1462 1510) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.56% Terrible

Lighting 33.4

Reflection 24.9

Parallax 25.5

10% 27.9 fps

MRender 16.4

Gravity 24.6

Splatting 28.8

10% 23.3 fps

USA-User, 5 hrs ago.HD 4870

Asus(1043 024E) 512MB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.54% Terrible

Lighting 33.8

Reflection 24.8

Parallax 26.7

10% 28.4 fps

MRender 15.2

Gravity 24.5

Splatting 28.8

10% 22.8 fps

USA-User, 9 hrs ago.HD 4870

Sapphire(174B E810) 1GB

Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

9.54% Terrible

Lighting 34.2

Reflection 25.3

Parallax 26.1

10% 28.5 fps

MRender 16.7

Gravity 23.1

Splatting 29

9% 22.9 fps

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Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 19,280,738 GPUs tested.

Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 14,661 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Sapphire(174B E104)	10%	9% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0502)	10%	11% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B E810)	10%	9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E115)	4%	13% ± 2%
PwrHis(1787 2003)	3%	10% ± 1%
Device(0000 0000)	3%	11% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2266)	3%	10% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2267)	3%	11% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2470)	3%	10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0851)	3%	12% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B E114)	3%	12% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0502)	3%	11% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2700)	2%	13% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E850)	2%	12% ± 1%
Dell(1028 0502)	2%	10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21C0)	2%	10% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2448)	2%	12% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801)	2%	11% ± 1%
Asus(1043 026A)	2%	10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1530)	2%	10% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2007)	1%	13% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 3000)	1%	8% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21B4)	1%	10% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2472)	1%	10% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401)	1%	9% ± 2%
AMD(1002 0B04)	1%	9% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E118)	1%	12% ± 2%
PwrHis(1787 2281)	1%	13% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1510)	1%	10% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2447)	1%	11% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E111)	1%	9% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21B8)	1%	9% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2009)	1%	10% ± 1%
Asus(1043 0278)	1%	11% ± 2%
Sapphire(174B E131)	1%	12% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21BC)	1%	12% ± 0%
Device(1771 0502)	1%	10% ± 3%
Asus(1043 0282)	1%	10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0280)	1%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031E)	1%	14% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1740)	1%	12% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1940)	1%	13% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 114A)	1%	12% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2273)	1%	8% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2445)	1%	12% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00B2)	1%	22% ± 20%
PwrHis(1787 2282)	1%	15% ± 0%
Asus(1043 024E)	1%	10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 01FC)	1%	12% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031A)	0%	12% ± 0%

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Desktop 37%

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Workstation 22%

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Motherboard: Asus P5Q-PRO

CPU
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $270Bench 30%, 21,148 samples	337x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $34Bench 17%, 40,155 samples	273x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $154Bench 22%, 39,165 samples	243x

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HD 4870ATIBench 11%, 14,661 samples	152x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $86Bench 107%, 469,025 samples	67x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $50Bench 54%, 193,177 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $103Bench 113%, 390,898 samples	31x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 100,860 samples	942x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 248,234 samples	461x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 61,502 samples	152x

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Value: 27% - Poor

Total price: $356

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9400F $143	AMD RX 580 $174	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $86
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 $198	Nvidia GTX 1660 $220	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $103
Intel Core i5-9600K $230	AMD RX 5700 XT $400	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $195

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $75	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $128
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $40	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $695	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24

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HD 4870