The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 1 (DX11)
Battlefield 1 returns from the 2017 benchmark suite, the 2017 benchmark suite with a bang as DICE brought gamers the long-awaited AAA World War 1 shooter a little over a year ago. With detailed maps, environmental effects, and pacy combat, Battlefield 1 provides a generally well-optimized yet demanding graphics workload. The next Battlefield game from DICE, Battlefield V, completes the nostalgia circuit with a return to World War 2, but more importantly for us, is one of the flagship titles for GeForce RTX real time ray tracing.
We use the Ultra preset is used with no alterations. As these benchmarks are from single player mode, our rule of thumb with multiplayer performance still applies: multiplayer framerates generally dip to half our single player framerates. Battlefield 1 also supports HDR (HDR10, Dolby Vision).
Our previous experience with Battlefield 1 shows that AMD hardware tend to do relatively well here, and the Radeon VII is no exception. Of the games in our suite, Battlefield 1 is actually only one of two games where the Radeon VII takes the lead over the RTX 2080, but nevertheless this is still a feather in its cap. The uplift over the Vega 64 is an impressive 34% at 4K, more than enough to solidly mark its position at the tier above. In turn, Battlefield 1 sees the Radeon VII meaningfully faster than the GTX 1080 Ti FE, something that the RTX 2080 needed the Founders Edition tweaks for.
99th percentiles reflect the same story, and at 1080p the CPU bottleneck plays more of a role than slight differences of the top three cards.
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eva02langley - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Love my 2400g, agree with an iGPU like that, however you will not make me believe that an HD 520 is "enough".My only GPUs that died were Nvidia ones... 3 in total. 0 AMD.
TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Read what he said again. "For majority 90+ % of people Integrated graphics are good enough for spreadsheets, internet and word processing"Guess what nearly every office laptop and desktop uses? If it wasnt "good enough" there would be a push for more powerful iGPUs in widespread circulation.
The basic intel iGPU if far mroe then enough to do office work, stream video, or normal workstation content. more powerful GPUs are only needed in specific circumstances.
eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I know what he said and I know what he means... and I know he is painted Intel all over his body.And no, basic HD 520 is not enough, period. You can barely do office work and play videos.
If it was so true, the mobile market would not be the most lucrative for games/entertainment. As of now, a smart phone is having more GPU power than an HD520.
So basically, I am not agreeing at all.
AdhesiveTeflon - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
We do plenty of CAD work and GIS functions with Intel's iGPUs, so what were you saying about them barely able to do office work and videos?We also have a lot more issues with AMD's mobile and professional cards than nVidia's.
Icehawk - Saturday, February 9, 2019 - link
Out of 500 PCs at my job a whopping two have video cards, they are random low ends ones purchased to add additional video ports for two stations that run quad monitors. Otherwise there is zero need for a dGPU.This is typical of the vast majority of businesses.
ksec - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
1. I believe there will be better drivers for VII, it was quite clear that there are many optimisation not done in time, although I don't know how long it will take. The new AMD seems to be quick to react though.2. What if AMD decided to release the MI60 VII at $899.
TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
VII is the VEGA arch, with more ROPs. If AMD managed to leave that much performance on the table, they must be the most incompetent code writers in all of existence.The VEGA arch has long been optimized for, adding some ROPs isnt going to require much work to optimize for, and AMD has likely already done that.
ksec - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Optimisation are now nearly done on a per AAA game level. And more importantly not only the drivers but the game itself. Whether the developer are willing to optimise the game ( at the help of AMD ) will be another story.lcrotach - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Nice to see AMD being competitive again. It's a pity they've priced the card so high in Europe that you can get a RTX 2080 for 100 euros less. At that price point they won't be selling many.Manch - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Need to see the VAT free price.