AMD Radeon RX Vega Benchmark Review: Vega 64 and Vega 56 Tested

Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 (also known as BF1) is the fifteenth installment in the Battlefield Series developed by DICE and published by EA. The game is set during World War I. It was released world wide on October 21, 2016. The singleplayer campaign of Battlefield 1 takes place across six different “War Stories” which revolve around different people in different aspects of the Great War in campaigns such as the Italian Alps and the deserts of Arabia. We benchmark in Through Mud and Blood, which is the second mission in singleplayer campaign. Taking place late in the war, the player assumes the role of Danny Edwards, a British recruit joining the crew of a Mark V Landship named Black Bess as their new tank driver. New to the war and inexperienced in driving the unreliable vehicle, Edwards is given a trial by fire with his first mission: punch through the German line at Cambrai with a broken tank and a crew that has no trust in him.

Battlefield 1 features the Frostbite 3 game engine and has very good graphics with tons of destructibles. Maps also now feature dynamic weather systems, affecting combat in various ways; for example, The St. Quentin Scar can either start as a clear, sunny day, a dark, foggy day, or in the middle of a rainstorm, and switch between them during the round.

We tested BF1 at 1920 x 1080 with the ‘Ultra’ graphics quality preset in DX12 with the GPU Memory Restriction turned off. We also disabled VSync.

Benchmark Results: Battlefield 1 is pretty tough on graphics cards with the Ultra image quality preset, but we were still able to average 131.5 FPS on 1080P on the AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 and 114.3 FPS on the Radeon RX VEGA 56. When we cranked up the screen resolution to 2560×1440 our performance dropped down to 100 and 88 FPS, respectively. The numbers produced by the Radeon RX VEGA 64 were above the GeForce GTX 1080 cards and we were close to 60 FPS on average on the VEGA RX 64 at 4K on BF1!