AMD Radeon VII Review: Performance Benchmarks With 7nm Vega

Name: AMD Radeon VII With 16GB HBM2
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, February 07, 2019, 09:00 AM EDT

Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from FarCry 5, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, FarCry 5 is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game takes place in a fictional county in Montana, where a cult has taken over control of the area. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this recently-released AAA title.

Far Cry 5

The Dunia Engine Lives On

FarCry 5

The Radeon VII trailed the GeForce RTX 2080 in FarCry 5 with the settings we used at 1440p, but the Radeon VII's massive memory bandwidth advantage allowed it to catch up and match the RTX 2080's performance at 4K.

FarCry displays the frame rate over time and memory usage as well when the test is complete, so we also captured that info with the GeForce RTX 2080 and Radeon VII running at 4K. The cards behaved similarly here as well.

Final Fantasy XV

Freshly Updated With DLSS Support

Deep Learning Super Sampling, or DLSS, is one of the GeForce RTX series’ stand-out features. When employed, DLSS should offer image quality on par with or better than other anti-aliasing techniques, but with a much smaller performance hit.

Final Fantasy XV

Obviously, we only have DLSS scores on the GeForce RTX series cards, since the others don't support it. The TAA numbers are comparable, however, and they show the Radeon VII trailing the RTX 2070 and 2080, and even the older GeForce GTX 1080.

Tags: AMD, graphics, GPU, vega, 7nm, (nasdaq:amd), radeon vii

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com