The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 1 (DX11)
Battlefield 1 returns from the 2017 benchmark suite, the 2017 benchmark suite with a bang as DICE brought gamers the long-awaited AAA World War 1 shooter a little over a year ago. With detailed maps, environmental effects, and pacy combat, Battlefield 1 provides a generally well-optimized yet demanding graphics workload. The next Battlefield game from DICE, Battlefield V, completes the nostalgia circuit with a return to World War 2, but more importantly for us, is one of the flagship titles for GeForce RTX real time ray tracing.
We use the Ultra preset is used with no alterations. As these benchmarks are from single player mode, our rule of thumb with multiplayer performance still applies: multiplayer framerates generally dip to half our single player framerates. Battlefield 1 also supports HDR (HDR10, Dolby Vision).
Our previous experience with Battlefield 1 shows that AMD hardware tend to do relatively well here, and the Radeon VII is no exception. Of the games in our suite, Battlefield 1 is actually only one of two games where the Radeon VII takes the lead over the RTX 2080, but nevertheless this is still a feather in its cap. The uplift over the Vega 64 is an impressive 34% at 4K, more than enough to solidly mark its position at the tier above. In turn, Battlefield 1 sees the Radeon VII meaningfully faster than the GTX 1080 Ti FE, something that the RTX 2080 needed the Founders Edition tweaks for.
99th percentiles reflect the same story, and at 1080p the CPU bottleneck plays more of a role than slight differences of the top three cards.
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just4U - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Your just looking for reasons to not like it.. It's a awesome card according to reviews. Is it a 2080ti killer? No. (..shrug) Maybe it might force some pricing down though so you can get one of those.. maybe. For me the 2080ti is 2x the price of the 1080s I own... and I'll not pay that for a video card unless I am in a business setting that requires it.Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
"It's a awesome card according to reviews."I read this review. Its noise-to-performance ratio is pathetic in comparison with the 2080 and the Fury X. Full stop.
If you're going to argue at least do something beyond trotting out the lamest dodge technique there is: the ad hominem fallacy.
eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
It doesn't "sux". It is just not disruptive enough for Nvidia fans to expect a price cut on RTX, which is pissing off mroe Nvidia fans than AMD ones it seems.The performances in games are okay, and the compute is really strong. If it is cheaper, it is a better buy. At the same price, I will go Nvidia.
However in Canada, the 2080 RTX is 50-100$ more expensive for blower style cards... with similar accoustics and worst temps.
Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
"If it is cheaper, it is a better buy. At the same price, I will go Nvidia. However in Canada, the 2080 RTX is 50-100$ more expensive for blower style cards... with similar accoustics and worst temps."Tu quoque = some blower models are loud, too.
$50-$100 is a very low price tag for one's hearing, comfort, and ability to enjoy audio whilst gaming and/or using the card for other intensive purposes.
Holliday75 - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I couldn't give two shits about noise. I wear headphones. I've never paid any attention to it on any product I buy.Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
1) Headphones don't negate all noise. Not even the combination of earplugs and headphones designed to absorb noise (and not produce audio) will get rid of noise. It still comes through. One can blast the audio at a higher volume and damage one's hearing to try to cover up noise but that is why the iPod/iPhone younger generations are facing epidemic levels of hearing damage.2) Headphones, as a requirement, are a limitation of the product's functionality.
Firstly, they become uncomfortable. Secondly, they tend to aggravate tinnitus for people with it. Thirdly, they are an extra expense. Fourthly, some have good speaker systems they want to make us of. Etc.
Why advocate limiting one's possibilities for basically the same price, when compared with other, more flexible, products? It's silly. You're gaining nothing and losing potential usefulness.
The only way the headphones point works much in your favor is if the same thing is required of Nvidia's GPU. Otherwise, it's merely you stating that you are a subset of the use cases for this GPU that isn't affected by the noise problem. A subset is not the entirety by any means.
Deaf folks don't have to worry about noise, too. Does that mean they should attempt to dismiss noise problems for everyone else?
LarsBars - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
I wish you guys would add Vega 64 liquid to the spec chart comparison: 1700MHz, 13.7 TFLOPs...Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Unfortunately that's not a card we have. AMD didn't widely sample that one.PeachNCream - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Only $699? This is a midrange GPU in much the same way the $750 monitor was a midrange screen. By recent Anandtech standards, the price does not warrant any mention of high-end. Come on people, we need some consistency on the use of these terms!All teasing about the writing aside, it is nice to see a bit of competition. The Radeon VII is way out of my interest range as a product (it has 8x more VRAM than my daily use laptop has system RAM) but I hope it causes a Red and Green slapfest and brings prices down across all graphics cards. Maybe I'm being too optimistic though.
Korguz - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
peachncream... maybe not in your books.. but this is not a midrange card... maybe high end midrange :-)um seems all you have are notebooks... your not in the market for a discrete card ;-)
your laptop only has 2 gigs of ram ?? wow....