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by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2010)Desktop157 MHz300 MHz0.95 VBlu-Ray Playback400 MHz900 MHz1.03 V3D Load875 MHz1225 MHz1.18 V AMD includes their own overclocking utility with Catalyst Control Center.
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)Desktop157 MHz300 MHz1.06 VBlu-Ray Playback400 MHz800 MHz1.11 V3D Load894 MHz1200 MHz1.24 V AMD includes their own overclocking utility with Catalyst Control Center.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon HD 5870 among Desktop GPUs
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more |
Graphics | |
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T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more |
Computing | |
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Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more |
Performance per Watt | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Value | |
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Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more |
Noise and Power | |
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TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more |
6.2 | Overall Score |
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Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon HD 5870
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Radeon HD 5870
17.34 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
44.94 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
30.98 mPixels/s
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Reviews Word on the street for the Radeon HD 5870
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What People Are Saying Give it to me straight
Memory
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)One reason is that the clock speeds are increased, the additional 1 GB of GDDR5 memory needs power too, another factor is the different voltage regulation circuitry.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)Thanks to the new error correction algorithm in the memory controller, every memory error is just retransmitted until everything is fine.
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2010)MSI has slightly increased the clock speeds on their design to 900/1200 up from 850/1200 on the reference design.
Performance
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)You have to manually increase the clocks and observe the framerate until you find the point where performance drops.
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)At resolutions lower than 1900 x 1200, 2 GB has very little performance benefits.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)Crossfire dual, triple and quad configurations are supported to improve performance even further.
Applications
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)Overall this is a nice choice of added features and the software is reasonably easy to use.
by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2010)8.9The HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo is a rock solid card that can play every game you throw at it, at resolutions up to 1920x1200, with highest details settings, and some anti-aliasing eyecandy.
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2010)GPU voltage is managed by a UP6225 voltage controller, which supports I2C software voltage control up to 1.85 V. MSI's Afterburner lets you adjust the GPU voltage up to 1.35V. Unfortunately you can only change GPU voltage via software, adjusting the other voltages requires a hard mod via soldering.
Power
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)Along the top edge of the card ASUS has placed a lit Matrix logo which changes color when the GPU load / power draw changes, a very nice touch.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)Due to reduced power requirements, AMD has decided to fit the card with two 6-pin power connectors only.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)I find the power consumption improvements very impressive.
Overclocking
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2010)Desktop157 MHz300 MHz0.97 VBlu-Ray Playback400 MHz900 MHz1.11 V3D Load900 MHz1200 MHz1.17 V AMD includes their own overclocking utility with Catalyst Control Center.
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2010)Afterburner which is made by my good friend Unwinder, who also makes Rivatuner, is clearly one of the most advanced and easy to use software for GPU overclocking.
by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2010)The overclocks seen on our card are neither spectacular nor disappointing, they pretty much represent a good average of what you can expect from most HD 5800 based graphics cards.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
GPU brand | ATI |
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GPU name | Cypress |
Market | Desktop |
Clock speed | 894 MHz |
Is dual GPU | No |
Reference card | ATi Radeon HD 5870 850 MHz 1 GB |
raw performance
Shading units | 1,600 |
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Texture mapping units | 80 |
Render output processors | 32 |
Compute units | 20 |
Pixel rate | 28.61 GPixel/s |
Texture rate | 71.52 GTexel/s |
Floating-point performance | 2,861 GFLOPS |
memory
Memory clock speed | 1,200 MHz |
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Effective memory clock speed | 4,800 MHz |
Memory bus | 256 bit |
Memory | 2,048 MB |
Memory type | GDDR5 |
Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s |
noise and power
TDP | 188W |
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Idle noise level | 42.4 dB |
Load noise level | 53.8 dB |
Idle power consumption | 123W |
Load power consumption | 352W |

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