ATI

HD 4870

HD 4870
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Effective Speed -906%Effective 3D Speed -906%Average User Bench -864%Lighting -646%, MRender -1,050%, Gravity -897%Peak Overclocked Bench -726%Lighting -549%, MRender -872%, Gravity -758%Value & Sentiment -4,009%User Rating -157%, Market Share -7,861%Nice To Haves -648%Reflection -616%, Parallax -928%, Splatting -352%, Reflection -731%, Parallax -1,042%, Splatting -443%, Age -424%

Average Bench: 7.21% (258^th of 627)

Based on 15,768 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: 5%Average: 7.21% Great: 9%

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Terrible average bench

The ATI HD 4870 averaged 92.7% 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) 37.1fps

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 25.9fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the ATI HD 4870 is just 3.67%. 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) 27.8fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 29fps

Average Bench

(Based on 15,768 samples)

Rank 2587.21%

Min	Avg	Max
29.2	Lighting 37.1	47.3
23.3	Reflection 27.8	34.5
21.4	Parallax 29	36.2
9.73% 31.3 fps

Min	Avg	Max
15.4	MRender 18.5	23.2
18.7	Gravity 25.9	32.4
26.2	Splatting 33.6	43.4
7.1% 26 fps

User Benchmarks

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

CZE-User, 4 hrs ago.HD 4870

Asus(1043 031E) 1GB

CLim: 850 MHz, MLim: 975 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver:

8.82% Terrible

Lighting 46.1

Reflection 33.8

Parallax 35.5

12% 38.5 fps

MRender 23

Gravity 31.6

Splatting 43.2

9% 32.6 fps

ESP-User, 7 hrs ago.HD 4870

PwrHis(1787 2267) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

8% Terrible

Lighting 42.3

Reflection 31.1

Parallax 32.2

11% 35.2 fps

MRender 21

Gravity 28.6

Splatting 39.4

8% 29.7 fps

FRA-User, 4 hrs ago.HD 4870

Sapphire(174B E114) 1GB

Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001

7.73% Terrible

Lighting 37.4

Reflection 30.2

Parallax 31.3

10% 33 fps

MRender 20

Gravity 27.9

Splatting 38.5

8% 28.8 fps

BGR-User, 1 hr ago.HD 4870

Sapphire(174B E104) 512MB

Driver: aticfx32.dll Ver. 8.850.0.0

6.79% Terrible

Lighting 40.4

Reflection 27.8

Parallax 27.5

11% 31.9 fps

MRender 17.5

Gravity 24.1

Splatting 30.2

7% 23.9 fps

ESP-User, 8 hrs ago.HD 4870

AMD(1002 0502) 512MB

Driver: atidxx32 Ver. 8.56.1.16

6.48% Terrible

Lighting 34.8

Reflection 25.8

Parallax 26.7

9% 29.1 fps

MRender 16.2

Gravity 23.4

Splatting 28.9

6% 22.8 fps

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Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 22,407,234 GPUs tested.

Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 15,768 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Sapphire(174B E104)	12%	6% ± 1%
AMD(1002 0502)	9%	7% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E810)	9%	6% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E115)	6%	9% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 2266)	4%	7% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2267)	4%	8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0851)	4%	8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E131)	3%	8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 0502)	2%	8% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21C0)	2%	6% ± 0%
Device(0000 0000)	2%	7% ± 1%
Sapphire(174B E850)	2%	8% ± 0%
Dell(1028 0502)	2%	6% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801)	2%	8% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2007)	2%	8% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1510)	1%	7% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2003)	1%	7% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E114)	1%	8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21B8)	1%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 026A)	1%	7% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E118)	1%	9% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 21B4)	1%	7% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2470)	1%	7% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B E111)	1%	6% ± 1%
PwrHis(1787 3000)	1%	6% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401)	1%	7% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 2281)	1%	9% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21BC)	1%	8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2701)	1%	9% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2702)	1%	9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031E)	1%	9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0278)	1%	8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 21CB)	1%	9% ± 2%
MSI(1462 1740)	1%	8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2448)	1%	8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1531)	1%	5% ± 0%
Diamond(1092 E104)	1%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 031A)	0%	8% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2700)	0%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0282)	0%	6% ± 0%
Device(1545 1002)	0%	7% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2441)	0%	8% ± 0%
AMD(1002 0B04)	0%	6% ± 0%
Apple(106B 00B2)	0%	8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1530)	0%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 01F6)	0%	7% ± 0%
XFX(1682 5006)	0%	7% ± 0%
XFX(1682 5004)	0%	6% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 114A)	0%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0264)	0%	6% ± 0%

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Workstation 22%

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Motherboard: Asus P5Q-PRO

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Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $270Bench 34%, 20,055 samples	364x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $34Bench 25%, 46,815 samples	306x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $190Bench 25%, 40,432 samples	266x

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HD 4870ATIBench 7%, 15,768 samples	168x

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850 Evo 250GBSamsung $55Bench 105%, 518,957 samples	77x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $70Bench 55%, 209,618 samples	52x
A400 120GBKingston $22Bench 60%, 70,930 samples	39x

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4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 119,808 samples	1,027x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 259,818 samples	501x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 63,286 samples	166x

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Value: 32% - Below average

Total price: $325

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Intel Core i5-9400F $150	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $270	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9600K $200	AMD RX 590 $180	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $150
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $65	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24

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HD 4870