Although it cannot match the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 in Final Fantasy 15 — a title that features some technologies exclusive to the RTX series — the AMD Radeon VII appears to be a much better choice for 4K gaming, scoring higher than its competitor in the Fire Strike Ultra benchmark. The Radeon VII will hit the market on February 7.

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The AMD Radeon VII is on its way and, as usual, the first review samples have already reached the parties usually involved in providing the first independent evaluations. Obviously, the first benchmark results have started to show up as well, and it seems like the Radeon VII will be an excellent alternative to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, especially in 4K scenarios.

Without further ado, these are the Fire Strike 1.1 scores achieved by the AMD Radeon VII:

Extreme: 12,224 with Intel Core i9-9900K and 12,141 with AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Ultra: 6,688 with Intel Core i9-9900K and 6,707 with AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

In the Performance preset, the Graphics Score achieved by the Radeon VII is 27,587, while custom factory-overclocked GeForce RTX 2080 cards can score 26,800. The NVIDIA card gets a beating when using the Ultra preset as well: 6,782 and 6,871 points (Graphics Score with the aforementioned Intel and AMD processors) for the Radeon VII versus 6,430 for the GeForce RTX 2080.

However, all the above does not mean there will be no reason for gamers to buy the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 anymore once the Radeon VII hits the market. In Final Fantasy 15, the Radeon VII is slower than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 at 2,560 x 1,440 pixels and Standard Quality, but things get even worse for it when using the High Quality preset: AMD's card is slower than the Quadro P500 and faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.