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by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 18, 2020 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.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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justareader - Friday, May 22, 2020 - link
They make plenty of money and they are paid well. Otherwise they would not be able to afford the fancy cars and the dinner parties. I have found that all writers on the internet are rich and have the best of everything. I want to one day be able to write for internet and get rich too.Kaihekoa - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I recommend gamers nexus for this kind of data and game-specific benches. Anandtech is outdated in many regards.Alistair - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Gamers Nexus is often not up to date either, which is the most important consideration in the context of his comment. Check Hardware Unboxed on Youtube, or Techspot for the latest info, and the most games tested.Pewzor - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Yep GN uses very old games. Even GTA V with a broken engine, and usually quite favor Intel and Nvidia, he used it since the game come out until today. Some turn based strategy game that I don't know anyone plays and so on.HideOut - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I honestly cant watch gamers nexus. He puts me to sleep with his non stop charts...jrbales@outlook.com - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
I like the videos except they go on way too long, which is mainly due to all the charts. Would be better if he cut the videos by 10 minutes and create a webpage with the charts for those wanting a more in-depth review.0ldman79 - Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - link
They have a website.It has those charts.
You know you can grab the progress slider and fast forward, right?
flyingpants265 - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
Jesus... Stay in school, kids.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
Amazing how many people are prepared to tell on their own lack of attention span.mikato - Sunday, May 24, 2020 - link
Haha yeah what I was thinking was that I will sometimes skim through whole articles (especially when repeated content) just to see the charts since they are the meat of the content here and show results of the work I’m not going to do myself. And for that person the charts put them to sleep. I’m curious what do they watch Gamers Nexus for then? Entertainment aspects I guess but odd choice.