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welcome back to our brown box today I've got some good news the release driver the public driver the first publicly available driver for Radeon seven it actually appears to work there's no crashing no stability issues of any kind it just works so that's nice I've been able to go back to the test bench and run a whole heap more game benchmarks about 33 I think games in total done a holly / resolution testing and all that sort of stuff loads of testing some updated games all that kind of stuff so I've spent the last few days doing nothing but benchmarking and then I spent the few days before that doing nothing but benchmarking it's been a hectic week anyway after spending Thursday wrapping up the coverage for Radeon 7 the day 1 review the embargo was lifted at 1:00 a.m. local time so that was Friday morning so I spent all day Thursday getting the video sorted out before it would go alive and then I replied to comment so I watched a few other reviews from my favorite tech youtubers it was a what was a late night early morning kind of deal anyway I ended up making it to bed around 3:00 a.m. but I didn't get that much of a sleep because I was back up at 8 a.m. because I wanted to hit the test systems with ddu get rid of the press drive that was causing me all their headaches and then replace it with the first publicly available a Radeon 7 driver aimed II didn't for me prior to the release of the public driver that there would be no performance improvements but they did expect it to solve my numerous stability issues as far as I can tell radio + 7 is now rock-solid since installing driver version adrenaline 2019 Edition nineteen point two point one I've not seen a single crash so that is a massive improvement now I did promise you guys once the stability issues were addressed that I would deliver a true hardware unbox benchmark featuring far more than a measly dozen games like I said the past few days have been spent doing nothing but benchmarking day and night but we now have over 30 games to check out including the new World of Tanks update as well as apex legends as was the case with the day 1 review I'll be focusing on the 1440p data but also provide the 1080p and 4k results via a link in the video description for testing our Corsair GPU test rig built inside the crystal 570 X has been used and it features a core I 9 9 0 K clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of vengence ddr4 3400 memory so let's check out the results for a dozen of the games tested and then we'll jump into the full performance breakdown which covers all 33 games please note since I have previously discussed results for fortnight battlefield 5 World of Tanks trench Brigade Monster Hunter World shut off the Tomb Raider Rainbow six siege Far Cry 5 Forza horizon for Resident Evil 2 ARMA 3 and hit pan 2 in our day 1 coverage I'll skip going over them again and instead pick a dozen different games to discuss first up we have apex legends and this is a fresh new battle royale style game that came out of pretty much nowhere I'm yet to properly play it but it does seem like people are enjoying this one it's based on the same engine as titanfall 2 and like titanfall 2 it's capped at 144 FPS so at least that aspect of the game kinda sucks though for most 144 FPS will be sufficient so probably being a bit harsh there anyway the radio and 7 does OK I'd say just okay in this one slightly slower on the GTX todai-ji 12% slower than the ITX 2080 but 26 percent faster than Vega 64 so that's kind of Radeon 7 in a nutshell to be honest the Radeon 7 GP does perform quite well on Sniper Elite 4 but really who didn't see that coming this is a well optimized title that plays well on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware the GeForce r-tx 28 is still slightly faster but the margin is very small Radeon 7 also manages to improve on Vegas 64 by a 30% margin has to be said Deus Ex mankind divided is getting on a bit now it's a late 2016 release but it's certainly not the oldest game we test with anyway for those wondering DirectX 11 works better than DirectX 12 for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs so that's why we're using it the Radeon 7 was basically able to match the GTX 1080i making it a little slow in the r-tx 2080 but a good bit faster on the RT x 2070 and vega 64 it's not the most well optimized title to be released last year but it's still a lot of fun anyway performance in Just Cause for for the Radeon 7 was again okay the 1% low-performance match that of the GTX 280 on our TX 2080 which is good but the average framerate positioned at squarely between the ITX 2080 and 2070 which again is okay the Star Wars Battlefront two results are decent here the radio and seven provides strong 1% low performance coupled with a slightly lower than expected average framerate in the end it was 10% slow in the r-tx 2084 the average frame rate but 32 percent faster than Vega 64 projectiles to is always favored in video hardware and we see that when comparing Vega 56 and the gtx 1070 for example typically in other games the Vega GPU is generally faster as a result Radeon seven was only just able to beat the GTX 1080 making it much sold in the r-tx 2080 and way slower than gtx 1080i moving on we have Assassin's Creed Odyssey and this total never really played that nice with AMD hardware and yeah I know it's an AMD sponsored title but evidently that doesn't really mean much as this game does really prefer Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs anyway the Radeon seven was a big step forward from Vegas 64 offering 28% more performance sadly though this meant it was only able to match the r-tx 2070 so overall not a great result for the new $700 flagship AMD GPU okay so previously I was using the standalone World of Tanks benchmark but since that hasn't been updated in the game has recently received a major overhaul I'm now switching back to testing with the HD client the game engine improvements were mostly focused on better CPU utilization which is useful for those using local optimal T core processors we however use a 9900 K at 5 gigahertz so less of an issue here still it's best to test with the most up-to-date software possible hence the switch previously the Radeon 7 was 17% salt in the ITX 2080 now if the new version of the game it's 16% slower so same deal really as expected nothing has really changed here on the GPU front when not CPU limited moving on to vermintide 2 Radeon 7 was again slower than both the RT X 2080 and gtx 980ti though was a huge step forward from Vegas 64 delivering 36% more frames on average then we have The Witcher 3 and here Vega 56 is able to match the gtx 1070 yet despite that the radio and 7 was 9% slower than the gtx tonight ain't even slower than the RCX 2080 there's always that guy that calls us Nvidia biased because we don't test with any Vulcan titles as if there's loads of Vulcan titles I'm like going out of our way to avoid them anyway now the new videos latest GPU architecture churring is up to speed aim D no longer enjoys the performance advantage they once did in Vulcan based titles take Wolfenstein 2 for example here the Radeon 7 was 12% slower than the RCX 2080 but anyway we've included a Vulcan base title so I'm sure that might be a problem now dirt falls always an interesting inclusion as CMAA enables pretty much god mode on radeon gpus and we again see that here with the Radeon 7 we've previously seen AMD GPUs such as Vega 64 for example that's able to beat the 1% low performance of the r-tx 2080 Ti and here we see that the radio and seven absolutely shattered are the 1% low performance of the RDX 2082 eye while delivering these same 154 FPS on average fair to say ambe's GPU division would be in pretty good shape if every game it looked like this ok so that's how Radeon 7 stacks up in another dozen titles so between this video and then the day one coverage we've now closely looked at 24 games but there's another 9 we haven't discussed and the graphs for those games will be available for free on our patreon page so you can find the link in the video description that said we're gonna see how the Radeon 7 compared to the RT X 20 80 20 60 GTX 280 I and Vega 64 in all 33 games right now so let's go do that in our day one review featuring just a dozen games the Radeon 7 was 4% slower than the RT X 2080 now with 33 games it's 7% slower so slight change there though I did select the previous 12 titles to include an even amount of favorable and unfavorable titles for the GC and 5th gen architecture still what this graph tells us is that there is an overwhelmingly good chance that in a given title the RT X 2080 will be faster make the superior gaming GPU right now that's just a fact as much as it may upset certain AMD fans I'm sorry guys again those are just the facts moving on previously Radeon 7 was 2% slower than the GTX 1080i with the Dozen game sample now it's 5 percent slower again no major changes here but for the most part the much older GTX 1082 I was faster moreover it was faster by a 10% margin or greater in 10 of the 33 games tested whereas the Radeon 7 was faster by a 10% margin or greater in just 2 of the 33 games tested previously we saw that the Radeon 7 was 29% faster than the RT X 2060 and now with a much wider spread of games it's 28% faster so again much of a muchness here then finally compared to Vega 64 it was previously found to be 23% faster and now it's 24% faster that's my nice little performance bump but like I said in the previous video you are paying 40% more for a little over 20% more performance so there you have it we pretty much nailed it with our initial sample of games for the day 1 coverage the Radeon 7 is indeed slower than the RT X 2080 while consuming about the same amount of power a little bit more in my test but will vary depending on the settings used the game used and whatever point is it's on 7 nanometers and it's definitely not more efficient than the 2080 currently the only model available is the reference card and it doesn't run super hot though it may run a bit hotter at a reasonable fan speed it spins at about 3000 rpm it's extremely loud unbearably loud I would put it AMD says there is a fix incoming for the fan profile be interesting to see what that does to temperatures and obviously see if it is much quieter or at least bearable but yeah the fix is still incoming at this point so yeah it's just a promise for now so not going to read too much into that we'll just have to wait and see and then re test it when we do get that fixed but the good news is for now or going forward the stability issues are soft so basically that was just an issue with the early press release driver sometimes they can be a bit buggy unfortunately this one was shaaka but the good news is as I said anyone who managed to get one of these will not have run into the problems we did so yeah good stuff I'm still also yet to delve into any overclocking and or under vaulting but it is something I'm really keen to check out I know a lot of you guys have been requesting it in the comments and yeah I will get to that very soon for now I really just wanted to establish how the Radeon seven stacks up in a massive range of games and well yeah we've obviously done that now also for the guys screaming immature drivers AMD does believe that the Radeon seven is performing as it should be but of course as always as we've always done and will continue to do I will benchmark the fans off any new graphics card though for this one might not take too much benchmarking before their shoot off and ricochet all around my test system but seriously at this point you really don't need to demand more benchmarks from us you should just know they're happening whether you bloody well like it or not as for the Radeon 7.2 much more needs to be said at this point really if you felt our day 1 review was too harsh well upon reflection I don't we reviewed it exclusively as a gaming product as we always do with graphics cards and frankly they're under delivered if it happened to be more efficient than the RT X 2080 and run really quiet I deem it a worthy alternative but let's not sugarcoat this or beat around the bush it's not as efficient its layout and for the most part it's slower only a little slower but it is slower and if for some reason you think we're Nvidia shells or something crazy like that I would urge you to go back and watch our day 1 RT X 2080 and 2070 coverage because it was not favorable but the Radeon 7 has managed to make the RT X 2080 look pretty good in today's climate so for all those reasons I can't recommend the Radeon 7 over the GeForce RT X 2080 as badly as I wanted the 2080 to be obliterated by this very graphics card forcing in video to get real with their pricing that obviously hasn't happened therefore it seems gamers are forced to pay 2016 pricing for 2016 performance so yeah that sucks let's just hope and pray that things improve later in the year for now that is going to do it I may make a replying to comments episode as surrounding well this video the previous video basically my Radeon 7 content so if you have a good question or anything along those lines then feel free to drop that below and I'll do my best to include in that upcoming replying to comments video also if you enjoyed this video then be sure to the like button subscribe for more content and if your pressure to adjust our box then consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve see you next time