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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  • zodiacfml - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link

    whut?! They were late buying the EUV equipment to save money, too much focus on profitability which will kill Intel slowly overtime.
  • PandaBear - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link

    Yup, TSMC bought about 50% of all ASML output for the next couple years while Intel only bought 5%. RIP Intel, you got what you deserve and you are going to be the next Motorola.
  • Threska - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link

    Like it says in the article AMD almost folded in 2015, and people were writing articles about it's demise. Seems no one has learned anything about predicting the future from that experience. The world needs competition. It doesn't need an AMD monopoly, nor an Intel one, and with good fortune RISC-V and maybe other competitors will come on the scene so we don't keep repeating the history of "Oh they're dying, and I'm rooting for it".
  • Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link

    Keep on wishing, friend
  • Jasonovich - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link

    Hardly likely, TSMC is the bigger fish, has almost twice the capita as Intel.
  • vais - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link

    Luckily there are anti-monopoly laws ;)
  • Threska - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link

    Let's see how the whole ARM acquisition by Nvidia shakes out before we all start quoting monopoly laws.
  • Kurosaki - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link

    RIP Anandtech, these reviews makes it hard to come in without error 504 or the site c crashing
  • catavalon21 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link

    No issues here. Site's working fine.
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link

    Same here.

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