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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
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.
Gaming
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! (Apr, 2010)Even considering the $20 value of the game, the card feels still a bit too expensive.
by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2010)I also would like to applaud HIS for their bundled game choice.
Applications
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)Overall this is a nice choice of added features and the software is reasonably easy to use.
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.
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)ATI Eyefinity setups, where the GPU has to draw three different display outputs, the extra memory does come handy in some games.
Displays
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)In addition to that you can monitor all the voltages available on the voltage measuring points and the power draw of individual components.
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2010)The next GPU-Z version will also be able to monitor voltages and current on this controller.
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)Now the flicker is so short that it can be hidden between the monitor refresh intervals, enabling downlocking of GDDR5 in idle.
Range
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2009)They are high-end cards and that itself comes with a price premium.
by techPowerUp! (May, 2010)The ASUS EAH 5870 DirectCu is quiet for example, and the leader in the quiet high-end segment is clearly the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
GPU brand | ATI |
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GPU name | Cypress |
Market | Desktop |
Clock speed | 875 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 GPixel/s |
Texture rate | 70 GTexel/s |
Floating-point performance | 2,800 GFLOPS |
memory
Memory clock speed | 1,250 MHz |
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Effective memory clock speed | 5,000 MHz |
Memory bus | 256 bit |
Memory | 1,024 MB |
Memory type | GDDR5 |
Memory bandwidth | 160 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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