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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drgigolo - Saturday, February 9, 2019 - link
Yeah, of course I am looking at it that way :-) But I also like tech, and find the progress lacking these last years. Longer development cycles and diminishing returns for a lot more dollars.remedo - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Why isn't there any benchmarks for machine learning or deep learning?imaheadcase - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Because the card is not for that...loleva02langley - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
It kind of is... it is a Radeon Instinct M150 with less memory.DigitalFreak - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
The buy a Radeon Instinct M150GreenReaper - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Sure, if you want to pay two and a half times as much! Maybe get two and blow the rest on juice.eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
Well, you are buying a Vega 20 gimped... >:/So you do in reality... >:/
Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
In short, ML results take longer to put together than these relatively short embargoes allow for. It's also not a primary market for this card, so other things such as gaming performance testing get priority.That said, we're curious about it as well. Now that we're past the embargo, check back in later this month. We have an RTX Titan review coming up, which will give us a great opportunity to poke at the ML performance of the Radeon VII as well.
eva02langley - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I will be curious to see that. Compute/ML/Rendering/Content Creation comparison. I was more looking for this in all honesty since we knew what to expect from the card from the beginning.HStewart - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
I would think this is expected, AMD trying there best to go against NVidia video and probably release because some of struggles that RTX is having with unit issues.But in stage in my life, personally I don't need a high end graphics card but I would go nVidia because of past good experience. But in any case how many owners actually need high end card. For majority 90+ % of people Integrated graphics are good enough for spreadsheets, internet and word processing