Gaming 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.

AnandTech Low Resolution
Low Quality
Medium Resolution
Low Quality
High Resolution
Low Quality
Medium Resolution
Max Quality
Average FPS
95th Percentile

 

All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.

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  • madymadme - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    Going to buy
    AMD Ryzen 9 5900X,
    Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC,
    Noctua NH-D15 Dual 140m Fans,
    G.skill Trident Z RGB Series 16GB (2x8GB) 4000 MHz DDR4 Memory F4-4000C18D-16GTZRB

    is corsair CV550 watt ok with the above spec ? & I have Quadro K2000D graphic card
    is this specification ok ? & which ram to get please help a little & thanks for reading & replying
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link

    All I can say is your PSU should be more than enough for that setup :)
  • Vik32 - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    AMD is now the leader in single threaded performance!
    When will the iphone 12 review ?
  • Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    Loving the substantial review detail, as always! Quite the triumph for AMD 😁

    Only one minor criticism - the sum-up of the gaming results buries the lede a little, which is to say that the performance is excellent across AMD's new range, meaning that the 5600X frequently outperforms some of Intel's best processors. I will be *very* interested to see if overclocking makes any difference there - with some relaxed power limits and the potential for higher clocks, it could be THE gaming chip to buy.

    That's a small gripe, though. Just pleased to see a result this unequivocal. Between this and the US election result, it'll be tears before bedtime for several of the trolls on this site 🤭
  • Solidstate20 - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    Zen question: If a CPU has awesome performance but is out-of-stock in every shop, does it really have awesome performance?
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link

    lol
  • Agent Smith - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    Where are the new x590 motherboards to support the 5000 series CPU's?

    The B550 boards are good value but are PCIe 4.0 limited and rely on shared ports.
    The older x570 boards are good but are several years old now so lacking newer features like 2.5Gb LAN and front facing USB-C ports for mini & micro ITX.
  • Qasar - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    i dont think there will be unless the mobo makers release them on their own.

    "The older x570 boards are good but are several years old now " huh ? try barely 1.5 years old. x570 was released in July 2019, how is that several years ? the strix e gaming board i have has 2.5g lan, as long as the board has the usb 3 header, wouldnt front facing usbc be more of a case feature then the board ?
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link

    I think the USB-C front ports have a different connector at the motherboard end. I still don't get why this is a big deal, though.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - link

    It really isnt. I dont know anyone who actually uses front USB C right now, usually they plug into the back because the back port will be 10gb/20gb/thunderbolt, but the front is only 5gb

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