ATI HD 5870 VS HD 5850 Benchmark Test (All in one Review)

Today I want to select for you some benchmark tests about the HD5870 and HD5850 from ATI in this new All in one Review article, and this may help you to take the best decision witch one is better for you to play smooth and enjoy the best graphics quality for your pocket, so lets begin with the specifications of each card.

Radeon HD 5850

HD5850 Features :
    * Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
    * With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience innovative ‘wrap around’ multi-display capabilities2,4
    * Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed3,5
    * Feel the brute strength of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games
    * Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory
    * ATI CrossFireX™ technology with multi-GPU support offers advanced scalability

HD5850 Specifications :

Interface
Interface	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer	ATI
GPU	Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro)
Core Clock	725MHz
Stream Processors	1440 Stream Processing Units
Memory
Effective Memory Clock	1000MHz (4.0Gbps)
Memory Size	1GB
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
3D API
DirectX	DirectX 11
OpenGL	OpenGL 3.1
Ports
HDMI	1 x HDMI
DisplayPort	1 x DisplayPort
DVI	2 x DVI
General
RAMDAC	400 MHz
Max Resolution	2560 x 1600
CrossFireX Support	Yes
Cooler	With Fan
Dual-Link DVI Supported	Yes
HDCP Ready	Yes

 

Radeon HD 5870

Technical features :
# 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
# TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture

    * 1440 Stream Processing Units
    * 72 Texture Units
    * 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
    * 32 Color ROP Units
# GDDR5 interface with 128.0 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
# PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
# DirectX® 11 support
    * Shader Model 5.0
    * DirectCompute
    * Programmable hardware tessellation unitAccelerated multi-threading
    * HDR texture compression
    * Order-independent transparency
# OpenGL 3.2 support
# Image quality enhancement technology
    * Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
    * Adaptive anti-aliasing
    * 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
    * 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
# ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
    * Three independent display controllers
          o Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
    * Display grouping
          o Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display.
# ATI Stream acceleration technology
    * OpenCL support14
    * DirectCompute 11
    * Double precision floating point processing support
    * Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
# ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
    * Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
    * Dual-channel bridge interconnect
# ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology

Specifications and price slide from ATI

ATI HD5870 Specifications :

Interface	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer	ATI
GPU	Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT)
Core Clock	850MHz
Stream Processors	1600 Stream Processing Units
Memory
Effective Memory Clock	1200MHz (4.8Gbps)
Memory Size	1GB
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
3D API
DirectX	DirectX 11
Ports
HDMI	1 x HDMI
DisplayPort	1 x DisplayPort
DVI	2 x DVI
General
RAMDAC	400 MHz
Max Resolution	2560 x 1600
CrossFireX Support	Yes
Cooler	With Fan
System Requirements	Minimum 500 Watt Power Supply Requirement
Power Connector	2 x 6 Pin
Dual-Link DVI Supported	Yes
HDCP Ready	Yes

Selected Benchmark results

 3DMark Vantage Benchmark by czechgamer:

Relative performance by madshrimps:

Crysis Warhead Benchmark by PCGHW:

13 Game in 1 Benchmark Test H5870 2 and 3 way crossfireX by unknown:

Relative Performance Benchmark by techpowerup:

My thought :

Of course the ATI HD5870 win the race as you can see in all these benchmarks , but the difference in price is about 100$ or more .
And with an easy oveclocking the HD 5850 you can put the 100$ on your pocket and attend the performance of the HD 5870 , you have the final choice now .