Getting one of these Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire graphics cards allows the gamer to run indie system requirements and some less demanding AAA titles. In today’s PC hardware terms these are considered middle range for gaming performance. DirectX 11 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here is a performance review on how capable the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is at running the more popular games of 2019. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 237 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

The Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire graphics card is returning a weak performance on Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip at 1080p of 15 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which we saw got weak frame rates of 15 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Red Dead Redemption 2, which was getting 15 FPS under tests.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire by playing Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip which yielded a weak performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 30FPS, M: 24FPS, H: 16FPS, U: 11FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and that was weak. This graphics card delivered 11 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Red Dead Redemption 2 which gets weak results with a 11FPS on Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire we get the impression that it is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which is 128% more powerful and can run 921 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, as it can run 725 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 67% increased graphics performance.