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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.
AnandTech | Low Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Low Quality |
High Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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95th Percentile |
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Qasar - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
no, but fake posts are.feka1ity - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
sure, everything faster than new amede is fake for fanboizIketh - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link
was there a performance/watt metric anywhere in this article? how many memory controllers on each chip?peevee - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
As MT vs ST tests clearly show, there is not enough power and/or memory bandwidth on AM4 for 16 cores anymore.Hoping for a 4-channel DDR5 mass-market platform next.
One 8-core chiplet, one graphics chiplet (similar to 5600 XT, and working together with an additional AMD graphics card), 4 channels of DDR5 to support that, preferably as SODIMM slots right on the CPU package for smallest latency and power consumption possible (and making a cheap MB possible)... I can dream, can I? It should have been this generation, I would have ordered it already.
RobJoy - Thursday, November 19, 2020 - link
Same or better performance than Intel for the same price, with PCIe 4.0 for uber fast drives?Where do I sign?
Bring it on.
ssshenoy - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link
How do you conclude that this product line is superior to Tiger Lake when there are no measurements that compare these two? All the Intel to AMD comparisons are the old Skylake core on 14 nm vs. the latest Zen 3 core on 7 nm. Am I missing something here?JSyrup - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
Is there a reason why the 5800X outperforms both the 5900X and 5950X in some games? Could it have something to do with 1 CCX vs 2 CCXs?JSyrup - Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - link
*CCDsI got it now. For the best of both worlds, go for the 5950X. Then, if you play games, disable 1 CCD in BIOS or leave both CCDs enabled if you do productivity. This is how to maximise performance and prevent unexpected performance drops.
Sgtkeebler - Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - link
On RDR why do higher resolutions get higher FPS than 1080p?