Total War: Attila

The Total War franchise moves on to Attila, another The Creative Assembly development, and is a stand-alone strategy title set in 395AD where the main story line lets the gamer take control of the leader of the Huns in order to conquer parts of the world. Graphically the game can render hundreds/thousands of units on screen at once, all with their individual actions and can put some of the big cards to task.

For low end graphics, we test at 720p with performance settings, recording the average frame rate. With mid and high range graphics, we test at 1080p with the quality setting. In both circumstances, unlimited video memory is enabled and the in-game scripted benchmark is used.

Total War: Attila on ASUS GTX 980 Strix 4GB ($560)Total War: Attila on MSI R9 290X Gaming LE 4GB ($380)Total War: Attila on MSI GTX 770 Lightning 2GB ($245)Total War: Attila on MSI R9 285 Gaming 2GB ($240)Total War: Attila on ASUS R7 240 DDR3 2GB ($70)

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  • Michael Bay - Saturday, January 14, 2017 - link

    Doom is not very CPU-intensive, and Battlefield is just drek.
  • cpy - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    OMG AVX offset? What took them so long! I need AVX offset for my 4770K! That thing really mess with my OC. It feels like everytime AVX is used i need +0.1V to CPU.
  • thekdub - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    Why is the 4790K "highly overclocked" in these benchmarks, while everything else appears to be running at stock speeds? I was hoping to get some insight as to where my stock 4790K stacks against this new chip as I'm on the fence about upgrading this year or waiting another generation. Instead, I'm stuck making inferences and trying to guess the difference in speed between a known variable and a vague statement of "highly overclocked".
  • Achaios - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    @OP: It is a mistake that you did not explicitly state the OC of the chips you compared.

    The only thing I am interested right now is the release pf the 1080TI, so please ANANDTECH do your best to bring us some news (preview) regarding.

    CPU releases are completely uninteresting and by-and-large meaningless to anyone on a K Sandy Bridge CPU.

    I am on a Haswell, and don't see myself upgrading before 2020. Conversely, up to 2020, I would have upgraded my GPU twice.
  • Achaios - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    "by-and-large meaningless to anyone on a K Sandy Bridge CPU OR LATER". Please consider adding an EDIT function too. :-)
  • just4U - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    Yeah.. there isn't really much of a jump is there? Buying a 7700K for people already on High End I7's made in the past few years is more about ... just wanting something newer, with maybe taking advantage of what some of the newest MBs offer.. I think anyway. Speed? Pfft... you already got that..

    Now if they released a mainstream I7 that had 6 cores/12 threads in the same package, well then.. that might be something of a different story. (..shrug) intels loss.
  • Badelhas - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    "Given that Intel has no competition, it is perhaps easy to roll out a new mainstream performance champion".

    This frase sums it up. And this is why I still own a SandyBridge i5 2500K overclocked to 4.4Ghz (a 33% increase) and find no need to upgrade. Intel is not even trying. It´s just SAD.
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    When ivy bridge came out I saw this coming
  • willis936 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    Wow I can't believe it: an entire generation of CPUs that change absolutely nothing about the microarchitecture design or transistor size. Why even bother rolling out new SKUs?
  • willis936 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link

    This would have been the perfect generation to add eDRAM to the K series. If only AMD would put out.

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