The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTAshes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12)
A veteran from both our 2016 and 2017 game lists, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation remains the DirectX 12 trailblazer, with developer Oxide Games tailoring and designing the Nitrous Engine around such low-level APIs. The game makes the most of DX12's key features, from asynchronous compute to multi-threaded work submission and high batch counts. And with full Vulkan support, Ashes provides a good common ground between the forward-looking APIs of today. Its built-in benchmark tool is still one of the most versatile ways of measuring in-game workloads in terms of output data, automation, and analysis; by offering such a tool publicly and as part-and-parcel of the game, it's an example that other developers should take note of.
Settings and methodology remain identical from its usage in the 2016 GPU suite. To note, we are utilizing the original Ashes Extreme graphical preset, which compares to the current one with MSAA dialed down from x4 to x2, as well as adjusting Texture Rank (MipsToRemove in settings.ini).
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data.
For the Radeon VII, the intended goal was to equal or trade blows with the RTX 2080. The situation in Ashes: Escalation is still in line with that intention at 4K, where despite trailing the GTX 1080 Ti FE/RTX 2080 duo is comfortably ahead of the RTX 2070 and RX Vega 64. The lead begins to dwindle at lower resolutions, but the Radeon VII can still claim a 20% speedup at 1440p over the RX Vega 64.
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Icehawk - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
FFXV results sure look CPU limited to me - why aren't you running at least an 8700 @ 5ghz?Oxford Guy - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
They look like GameWorks or something to me but I can't see why anyone cares about FF anyway. I hurt my face smirking when I saw the footage from that benchmark. Those hairstyles and that car... and they're going fishing. It was so bad it was Ed Wood territory, only it takes itself seriously.luisfp - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
People don't forget that Vega GPUs have the memory beside the GPU core, therefore making it more hot that normal GPUs out there. That has a lot to do with how hot it seems to be, the temperature tends to raise more due to memory temps in same area.just4U - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
True enough but owners of the 56/64 have found many work arounds to such things as the cards have not needed as much power as they push out. My cards (56s) use 220W of power per card They never go over 65c in any situation and usually sit in the high 50s to low 60s. with their undervolts.luisfp - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
I believe that Vega GPUs have the memory beside the GPU core, therefore making it more hot that normal GPUs out there. That might have a lot to do with how hot it seems to be, the temperature tends to raise more due to memory temps in same area.just4U - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Better than a 64 in all situations and comparable to a 1080ti in all situations with only 5-6% performance hits against the 2080 which is costing 50-100 more here in Canada (according to pre-order sales) Yep, Im sold.ballsystemlord - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Your favorite spelling/grammar guy is here. (AT Audience: Boo!)"Faced with a less hostile pricing environment than many were first expecting, AMD has decided to bring Vega 20 to consumers after all, duel with NVIDIA one of these higher price points."
Missing words (and & at):
"Faced with a less hostile pricing environment than many were first expecting, AMD has decided to bring Vega 20 to consumers after all, and duel with NVIDIA at one of these higher price points."
"Which is to say that there's have been no further developments as far as AMD's primitive shaders are concerned."
Verb tense problem:
"Which is to say that there's been no further developments as far as AMD's primitive shaders are concerned."
Thanks for the review!
I read the whole thing.
The F@H results for Vega are higher than I predicted (Which is a good thing!).
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
"Your favorite spelling/grammar guy is here. (AT Audience: Boo!)"You're always welcome here. Pull up a chair!
ballsystemlord - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I was joking. Some site content creators call people like me "The spelling and grammar trolls".I can never really be certain, so I try to be a little funny in hopes that no body will take my corrections as "troll" actions.
I don't know how you guys feel, but you've always taken mine and others corrections into consideration.
Ryan Smith - Saturday, February 9, 2019 - link
Our flaws and errors are our own doing. When pointed out, it's our job as journalists to correct them. So as long as people are being polite about it, we appreciate the feedback.