With the release driving force available for the Radeon VII we determined to head again to the take a look at bench. Steve has spent the previous couple of days doing nothing however benchmarking... After spending the few days earlier than that, doing nothing but benchmarking.

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Since our day-one review of the Radeon VII, we had been advised via AMD motive force upgrades had been coming however there would be no performance upgrades, but the severa balance issues we revel in must be solved. And indeed, with the replace in vicinity the Radeon VII is now rock stable, that is a big improvement.

Today we've over 30 video games to test out, including the brand new World of Tanks update as well as Apex Legends. For testing we used our Core i9-9900K take a look at bench clocked at five GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3400 reminiscence. We'll cowl some of the consequences personally and then leap into the total performance breakdown with all 33 games.

Since the evaluation blanketed outcomes for Fortnite, Battlefield V, World of Tanks, Strange Bridge, Monster Hunter: World, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Rainbow Six Siege, Far Cry 5, Forza Horizon four, Resident Evil 2, ARMA three and Hitman 2, we're going to pass over them and as an alternative choose a dozen exceptional video games to discuss.

Benchmarks

Apex Legends is a clean new warfare royale game that got here out of nowhere, however it does appear like humans are playing this one. It’s primarily based on the equal engine as Titanfall 2 and like Titanfall 2 it’s capped at a hundred and forty four fps.

The Radeon VII does OK on this one. It’s slightly slower than the GTX 1080 Ti, 12% slower than the RTX 2080 and 26% faster than Vega 64. So that’s kind of Radeon VII a Box nutshell.

The Radeon VII plays quite nicely in Sniper Elite 4, however who didn’t see that coming? This is a well optimised identify that performs properly on both AMD and Nvidia hardware. The GeForce RTX 2080 turned into still slightly faster but the margin is small. The Radeon VII additionally manages to improve on Vega 64 by way of a 30% margin.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a late 2016 release however it’s clearly not the oldest sport we check with. For those questioning DirectX 11 works higher than DX12 on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, so that’s why we use it.

The Radeon VII turned into able to healthy the GTX 1080 Ti, making it a bit slower than the RTX 2080 however an amazing bit faster than the RTX 2070 and Vega 64.

It’s not the most properly optimized identify to be launched final 12 months but Just Cause 4 is still a number of a laugh. Anyway, overall performance for the Radeon VII changed into… okay. The 1% low overall performance matched that of the GTX 1080 Ti and RTX 2080 which is right, the common frame fee located it squarely among the RTX 2080 and 2070, which is… k.

The Star Wars Battlefront II consequences are decent, right here the Radeon VII provides sturdy 1% low overall performance coupled with a slightly decrease than predicted average body fee. In the give up it was 10% slower than the RTX 2080 for the average frame fee, but 32% quicker than Vega 64.

Project Cars 2 has constantly desired Nvidia hardware. We see this while comparing Vega fifty six and the GTX 1070 for example, normally the Vega GPU is quicker. As a end result Radeon VII turned into only capable of beon the GTX 1080, making it a whole lot slower than the RTX 2080 and manner slower than the GTX 1080 Ti.

Moving on we've got Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a identify that by no means performs first-rate with AMD hardware comparatively although it’s an AMD sponsored title. Evidently that doesn’t mean much as this recreation prefers Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.

The Radeon VII is a massive leap forward from Vega sixty four offering 28% greater overall performance, even though it became best capable of in shape the RTX 2070, which is not exceptional for a $seven hundred flagship AMD GPU.

On previous checks we have been using the standalone World of Tanks benchmark, however due to the fact that hasn't been updated and the game has acquired a prime overhaul we are switching again to testing with the HD customer.

The recreation engine enhancements were usually centered on higher CPU usage, which is useful for those the use of low clocked multi-middle processors. Before the Radeon VII become 17% slower than the RTX 2080, now it’s 16% slower, so the result is the same.

On Vermintide 2 the Radeon VII become slower than both the RTX 2080 and GTX 1080 Ti, although it was a massive breakthrough from Vega sixty four, delivering 36% more frames on common.

The Radeon VII become 2% slower than the GTX 1080 Ti with our 12-recreation pattern, now it’s 5% slower. No essential modifications, but for the maximum part the tons older GTX 1080 Ti changed into faster. Moreover, it changed into faster by way of a ten% margin or greater in 10 of the 33 games whereas the Radeon VII was quicker by using a 10% margin or extra in most effective 2 of the 33 video games.

Against the RTX 2060 the Radeon VII is 28% faster...

Finally compared to Vega sixty four the ultra-modern Radeon is 24% quicker. That’s a pleasing little performance bump, however as we stated in the day-one evaluate, you’re paying 40% more for a bit over 20% more performance.

Putting It All Together

For better or worse, it seems we quite plenty nailed it with our sample of games in the day-one insurance. The Radeon VII is indeed slightly slower than the RTX 2080, whilst costing the equal quantity and consuming a little extra electricity. Currently the reference card is extremely loud, however AMD has promised a repair is coming for that. We're also glad to record all the stableness problems we have been seeing previous to launch had been addressed, so each person who bought this card should enjoy a perfect revel in.

We've yet to delve into any overclocking and/or undervolting, something we will report on if we find there may be room for tweaks and squeezing greater overall performance there.

Something really worth noting, AMD does agree with that the Radeon VII is appearing because it ought to be. Even even though we plan to continue benchmarking this GPU at some point of its lifespan, as we continually do, AMD isn't always putting up excuses and announcing drivers are nevertheless immature or early revisions. A marvel might be satisfactory, but inside the intervening time what you notice is what you get.

The Radeon VII is a pleasant pictures card, however it is now not aggressive enough against the RTX 2080. We evaluation it solely as a gaming product (wherein that 16GB body buffer isn't truely a factor) and admittedly it below delivered. If it was extra efficient than the RTX 2080 and ran quiet, perhaps we ought to deem it a worthy alternative, however allow’s now not sugar coat this or beat across the bush, it’s now not as green, it’s loud and for the maximum part it’s slower, only a little slower however it’s slower.

For the ones reasons we will’t advise the Radeon VII over the GeForce RTX 2080. As badly as we wanted the RTX 2080 to be obliterated, forcing Nvidia to get actual with their pricing, that has now not took place. Therefore gamers are compelled to pay 2016 pricing for 2016 overall performance (until there's a DLSS miracle, however wait, no titles helping that...). It's not a bleak state of affairs in any respect -- examine why we accept as true with constructing a gaming PC proper now is a great concept -- but permit’s still hope later within the 12 months we see GPUs deliver better value for game enthusiasts.

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