The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition Review: Mid-Range Turing, High-End Price

F1 2018 (DX11)

Succeeding F1 2016 is F1 2018, Codemaster's latest iteration in their official Formula One racing games. It features a slimmed down version of Codemasters' traditional built-in benchmarking tools and scripts, something that is surprisingly absent in DiRT 4.

Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.

F1 2018 is another story of the cramped competitive space that the RTX 2070 and its sibling cards need to weasel their way through. Here, the GTX 1080 lags behind and the RX Vega 64 provides the nearest competition. At reference clocks and power, the matchup is essentially a wash, but as the RTX 2070 Founders Edition the card can claim a small edge. It's not too surprising considering how the RTX 2080 is in the same position against the GTX 1080 Ti.

As it so happens, we noted F1 2017 incurring significant performance hits on YCbCr422 HDR mode for Pascal; if the same follows in F1 2018, the RTX 20 series would be granted a slight advantage.