The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTMiddle-earth: Shadow of War (DX11)
Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.
Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of an engine that may not be bleeding edge. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data.
For Shadow of War, the Radeon VII positioning is much closer to ideal, splitting the GTX 1080 Ti FE and reference RTX 2080 while offering more than 25% improvement over the RX Vega 64. In that sense, at 4K the matchup with the reference RTX 2080 is a bit of a wash, and the Radeon VII can cement its claim at the RTX 2080/GTX 1080 Ti FE performance tier.
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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?