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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: F1 2019
The F1 racing games from Codemasters have been popular benchmarks in the tech community, mostly for ease-of-use and that they seem to take advantage of any area of a machine that might be better than another. The 2019 edition of the game features all 21 circuits on the calendar for that year, and includes a range of retro models and DLC focusing on the careers of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Built on the EGO Engine 3.0, the game has been criticized similarly to most annual sports games, by not offering enough season-to-season graphical fidelity updates to make investing in the latest title worth it, however the 2019 edition revamps up the Career mode, with features such as in-season driver swaps coming into the mix. The quality of the graphics this time around is also superb, even at 4K low or 1080p Ultra.
For our test, we put Alex Albon in the Red Bull in position #20, for a dry two-lap race around Austin. We test at the following settings:
- 768p Ultra Low, 1440p Ultra Low, 4K Ultra Low, 1080p Ultra
In terms of automation, F1 2019 has an in-game benchmark that can be called from the command line, and the output file has frame times. We repeat each resolution setting for a minimum of 10 minutes, taking the averages and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
No, that's meyeeeeman - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Ian, you need to buy some new servers for anandtech.com now that AMD has launched zen 3.The site is barely loading.
DigitalFreak - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I wonder if they're still running on the last hardware upgrade Anand did.Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Nah, we're a couple of generations past that now.Phiro69 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
As far as I can tell, it's cloudfront having problems, not Anandtech's backend. I would be surprised if they aren't 100% cloud based at this point, too.gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
This is what I expected from AMD, 10 years but it came !!gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Athlon 64 X2 2005 = 15 añosTomatotech - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
15 anuses? Surely it’s not *that* bad ;)ahenriquedsj - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
In competitive games it is a massacre.Double Trouble - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What AMD has been able to achieve over the past few years is definitely impressive, and this 5000 series CPU set is excellent. However, I do wonder if climbing up the price / segment chart is going to take a toll. For me, I've upgraded 5 PC's from older CPU's to Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X because the price was very reasonable (about $170). With a minimum of $300 for the new 5600X, that's almost double the price, so I won't be buying any for a long time. The 5000 series is impressive, but not worth that kind of a steep price. I wonder if a lot of other buyers might be in the same boat.