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by Ian Cutress on January 30, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Civilization 6 (DX12)
Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civ series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer overflow. Truth be told I never actually played the first version, but every edition from the second to the sixth, including the fourth as voiced by the late Leonard Nimoy, it a game that is easy to pick up, but hard to master.
Benchmarking Civilization has always been somewhat of an oxymoron – for a turn based strategy game, the frame rate is not necessarily the important thing here and even in the right mood, something as low as 5 frames per second can be enough. With Civilization 6 however, Firaxis went hardcore on visual fidelity, trying to pull you into the game. As a result, Civilization can taxing on graphics and CPUs as we crank up the details, especially in DirectX 12.
Perhaps a more poignant benchmark would be during the late game, when in the older versions of Civilization it could take 20 minutes to cycle around the AI players before the human regained control. The new version of Civilization has an integrated ‘AI Benchmark’, although it is not currently part of our benchmark portfolio yet, due to technical reasons which we are trying to solve. Instead, we run the graphics test, which provides an example of a mid-game setup at our settings.
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
| Game | Genre | Release Date | API | IGP | Low | Med | High | |
| Civilization VI | RTS | Oct 2016 |
DX12 | 1080p Ultra |
4K Ultra |
8K Ultra |
16K Low |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
| Civilization VI | IGP |
| Average FPS |  |
| 95th Percentile |  |
We had issues running Civilization beyond IGP, we're looking into exactly why.
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cmcl - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
Hi Ian,Your testing mentions running Linux 'when feasible' and when in 'full swing' - is that any time soon? I think benchmarks would benefit from cross-platform tests (remember the debacle of Threadripper performance on Windows..)
Cheers
DARK_BG - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
This review sucks there is not a single data for how the Socket A Duron 900 stacks up against the rest :D After all 19 years passed we should know how far the CPUs advanced :DTesseramous - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
I would not want to buy a limited edition piece of hardware with only 1500 sold as there is likely to be a lack of support; compatibility issues.evilpaul666 - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
Console emulation tests?mocseg - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
I think I'll wait for an updated linux comparisonhttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&...
Beaver M. - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
I just want a Intel 12-core 5 GHz chip. Lets hope the next generation delivers that.mapesdhs - Saturday, February 2, 2019 - link
Why the brand loyalty? That's not logical. Just buy the best solution for the intended task, no matter who makes it. If right now that's Intel, because of AVX or 1080p high-refresh gaming, then so be it, but for Blender atm AMD is king. It depends on the task. Some absolute notion of branded desire is bizarre.Beaver M. - Sunday, February 3, 2019 - link
Mixed. Too many bad experiences with stability and software support with AMD.Updated Software - Sunday, February 3, 2019 - link
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