The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTF1 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.
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data. Notably, for F1 2018 this includes calculating 99th percentiles from raw frame time output.
F1 2018 is another example of the Radeon VII lining up at a more preferable position. 4K/1440p performance is essentially a tie among the reference RTX 2080, GTX 1080 Ti FE, and Radeon VII. Meanwhile, it is also comfortably faster than the RX Vega 64.
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tipoo - Sunday, February 10, 2019 - link
It's MI50vanilla_gorilla - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
As a linux prosumer user who does light gaming, this card is a slam dunk for me.LogitechFan - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
and a noisy one at thatBaneSilvermoon - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Meh, I went looking for a 16GB card about a week before they announced Radeon VII because gaming was using up all 8gb of VRAM and 14gb of system RAM. This card is a no brainer upgrade from my Vega 64.LogitechFan - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
lemme guess, you're playing sandstorm?Gastec - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
I was beginning to think that the "money" was in crytocurrency mining with video cards but I guess after the €1500+ RTX 2080Ti I should reconsider :)eddman - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Perhaps but Turing is also a new architecture, so it's probable it'd get better with newer drivers too.Maxwell is from 2014 and still performs as it should.
As for GPU-accelerated gameworks, obviously nvidia is optimizing it for their own cards only, but that doesn't mean they actively modify the code to make it perform worse on AMD cards; not to mention it would be illegal. (GPU-only gameworks effects can be disabled in game options if need be)
Many (most?) games just utilize the CPU-only gameworks modules; no performance difference between cards.
ccfly - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
you joking right ?1st game they did just that is crysis (they hide modely under water so ati card will render these too
and be slower
and after that they cheat full time ...
eddman - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
No, I'm not.There was no proof of misconduct in crysis 2's case, just baseless rumors.
For all we know, it was an oversight on crytek's part. Also, DX11 was an optional feature, meaning it wasn't part of game's main code, as I've stated.
eddman - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
... I mean an optional toggle for crysis 2. The game could be run in DX9 mode.