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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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Yorgos - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I don't know what's more delusional, Intel selling a 500Watt CPUor fanboys thinking that this product will sell well at $3000.
Listen buddy, most sales from these systems come from Dell, HP and/or Lenovo workstations.
Nobody is going to bother messing with a cpu that's a fire hazard, gives you the same PCI-e lanes as a $300 CPU and you are obliged, as Dell/HP/Lenovo, to buy special motherboards from asus or another manufacturer.
Finally, the product placement here from Purch media targets Gamers, plus intel targets gamers.
This is just a shelf product, just like 8700k and 9900k to fight for the first position in some benchmarks, against zen, due to the unfortunate circumstances of zen being that good.
This product takes binned cpus away from much higher priced Xeons. They are not going to make great numbers available, by default, even if they could supply the market.
eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
"delusional", "fanboys", "Listen buddy", "fire hazard"You don't have to get so emotional to make a point.
Yorgos - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I like my comments to be vivid.I don't write NPC comments.
Arbie - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Then you should move to somewhere like Wccftech, where you won't even have to rationalize picking fights and being gratuitously rude. People like you ruin the tone of a quality forum.eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Being vulgar and crass isn't the same as being "vivid". If you cannot reply without resorting to name calling, then this not the place for you.WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
What part of his comment insulted you, snowflake?eddman - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
I didn't say he's not right.None. The point is this is a tech site. There is no need for such remarks.
"Snowflake"
This is what I'm talking about. Randomly calling people names with no reason. You don't even know me.
PeachNCream - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
I've run a lot of paper and pencil RPGs over the years and I'm disappointed to say that a number of my cookie cutter NPCs had more personality than some of the player characters, but I'm one of those story first GM types.WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Buzzwords or not the man is right.BGADK - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
You have no idea what professional software costs. In the end my clients dont care if the PC costs 5000USD, 7000 USD or 12000USD.The difference disapear when you add the software costs and my fee.