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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i4mt3hwin - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
So FP64 is 1:4 and not 1:8 or 1:2 as previously known?tipoo - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Yep, looks like they changed the cap in vBIOS based on feedback.Which also means they could have uncapped it, but it's still cool that they did that.
Ganimoth - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Does that mean it could be potentially unlocked by some bios mod?tipoo - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I hope so!Hul8 - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
I don't think it was ever reported or assumed to be 1/2 - that best possible ratio is only for the pro MI50 part. Early reports said 1/16.Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
For what it's worth, when we first asked AMD about it back at CES, FP64 performance wasn't among the features they were even throttling/holding back on. So for a time, 1/2 was on the table.GreenReaper - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
So it was *your* fault! ;-pBigMamaInHouse - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Asrock just posted vBios: is this with the FP 1:4 or newer?https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom%2...
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
We're not currently aware of any Radeon VII cards shipping with anything other than 1/4 rate FP64.BigMamaInHouse - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
So maybe it's new bios with some fixes?Did you tried it since all cards are the same reference design?