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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HollyDOL - Sunday, February 10, 2019 - link
Please, read what others write before you start accusing others.eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Yeah, when your speaker sound is at 70-80 dB next to you when playing CoD... /sarcasmAMD is going to solve the fan problems. Temps are lower than the RTX 2080, they can play with the fan profile a little bit better.
SeaTurtleNinja - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Lisa Su is liar and AMD hates gamers. This is just a publicity stunt and a way to give a gift to their friends in the Tech Media. This was created for YouTube content creators and not for people who play games. Another Vega dumpster fire.GreenReaper - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
But many YouTubers play games as their content. And people vicariously watch them, so effectively it's letting many people play at once, just for the cost of the video decode - which is far more efficient!Korguz - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
yea.. amd hates gamers.. you DO know AMD makes the cpu and vid cards that are in the current playstation and xbox... right ???Oxford Guy - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Yes, it's difficult to forgot the fiasco that is the Jaguar-based "console"(actually a poor-quality x86 PC with a superfluous anti-consumer walled software garden).
Korguz - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
how is it a fiasco ??the original xbox used a Pentium 3 and Geforce for its cpu and gpu... the 360, and IBM CPU and ATI GPU...
Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
1) Because it has worse performance than even Piledriver.2) Because the two Jaguar-based pseudo-consoles splinter the PC gaming market unnecessarily.
Overpriced and damaging to the PC gaming platform. But consumers have a long history of being fooled by price tags into paying too much for too little.
eddman - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Consoles have nothing to do with PC. They've existed for decades and PC gaming is still alive and even thriving.Why do you even care what processor is in consoles?
Oxford Guy - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
False. The only difference between the MS and Sony "consoles" and the "PC gaming" platform is the existence of artificial software barriers.