I'm getting a HD 7870 XT today so I will see how that does I'm hopping to get around 18-19MH/s I saw a club3D card that was only getting 14.5 but don't really understand that as the memory was way underclocked they took it from 1500Mhz to 1050Mhz for Ethereum which is stupid.
1500 is NOT stock clock on any HD 7870 - they predate memory that COULD run that fast "stock" by 2-3 years.
1050 though is an oddly excessive underclock, perhaps that was misreported and was the CORE clock.
1500 didn't become stock clock on any AMD card I am aware of prior to the R9 3xx series.
18-19Mhs out of a 7870 is NOT a reasonable expectation, don't think they mined THAT fast even the first couple weeks Ethereum existed and had much smaller DAG file sizing.
11 Mh/s is what I'm getting out of my currently-running 7870 (I forgot I had *2* of those cards), running 950/1350 (ANY other mem clock speed gives slower hashrate on this particular card, higher core clocks give NO hashrate improvement and make the card run hotter).
That's on a Sapphire "reference" design card that has a MAXIMUM memory OVERCLOCK of 1450, and stock 1250.
That IS running qtminer - genoil or claymore would probably add a couple percent from what I've seen on comparable testing, if I could ever get one of those two downloaded AT ALL.