4870 vs 5850: AMD HD 5850 vs ATI 4870

AMD HD 5850 vs ATI 4870

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Real World Speed

Performance profile from 36,170 user samples

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21,547 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 11% Sapphire(174B E115) 1GB
Worst Bench: 7% Sapphire(174B E104) 1GB

Poor: 7%

Great: 11%

SPEED RANK: 295th / 688

14,623 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 16% XFX(1682 2972) 1GB
Worst Bench: 14% AMD(1002 0B00) 1GB

Poor: 14%

Great: 16%

SPEED RANK: 221st / 688

Effective 3D Speed

Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
8. 64 % 15.4 % Much faster effective speed.
+78%
Lighting

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
12.5 fps 21.9 fps Much better lighting effects.
+75%
Reflection

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
13 fps 17.6 fps Much better reflection handling.
+35%
MRender

Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
8.45 fps 11.8 fps Much faster multi rendering.
+40%
Gravity

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
8. 59 fps 16.4 fps Hugely faster NBody calculation.
+91%
Lighting

Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
15.7 fps 23.2 fps Much better peak lighting effects.
+48%
Reflection

High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
16.7 fps 18.8 fps Better peak reflection handling.
+13%
MRender

Render target array GShader (Sphere)
10.8 fps 12.7 fps Faster peak multi rendering.
+18%
Gravity

NBody particle system (Galaxy)
11. 5 fps 17.4 fps Much faster peak NBody calculation.
+51%

Market Share

Based on 55,824,923 GPUs tested.

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Market Share

Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.07 % Insanely higher market share.
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User Rating

UBM User Rating
51 % 53 % +4%
Age

Newest
102+ Months 102+ Months
Parallax

Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
11. 7 fps 21.9 fps Hugely better peak texture detail.
+87%
Splatting

Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
11.6 fps Faster peak complex splatting.
+15%
10.1 fps
Parallax

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
8.97 fps 19.7 fps Hugely better texture detail.
+120%
Splatting

Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
8.85 fps 9.58 fps Slightly faster complex splatting.
+8%

Systems with these GPUs

Top Builds that include these GPUs

  • bin bin (139)
  • Asus P5Q-PRO (86)
  • Asus P5Q (56)
  • Asus P6T SE (50)
  • Dell Studio XPS 435MT (47)
  • Asus P6T (47)
  • Asus P7P55D (44)
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (73)
  • Asus P6T (63)
  • bin bin (51)
  • Gateway FX6831 (47)
  • Asus P7P55D (40)
  • Asus P6T SE (39)
  • Asus P6X58D PREMIUM (36)

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