The AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot At The High-End
by Nate Oh on February 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 5 (DX11)
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). This testing was done without HD Textures enabled, an option that was recently patched in.
The Far Cry 5 built-in benchmark isn't known for its sensitivity, but in this case the differences aren't drastic in how the Radeon VII takes the lead at 4K but slips behind at lower resolutions. For 4K and 1440p, the takeaway is that the Radeon VII, GTX 1080 Ti FE, and RTX 2080 are more-or-less in the same league.
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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?