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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Civilization 6
Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization 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 underflow. Truth be told I never actually played the first version, but I have played every edition from the second to the sixth, including the fourth as voiced by the late Leonard Nimoy, and 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.
For this benchmark, we are using the following settings:
- 480p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max
For automation, Firaxis supports the in-game automated benchmark from the command line, and output a results file with frame times. We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
upsss:https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vnF56By3SL2xWGrc...
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Shame they didn't have the 5800X and 5600X in there, would be interesting to see how they line up too. Strong progress indeed from AMD!5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The BEST moment of AMD👍👍👍Tunnah - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The eventual 5700X is going to be an absolute sales smasher I reckon.Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Is the Zen2 end-of-life?The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X $300 could sure put a really big squeeze on the i7-10700K
haukionkannel - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Most likely Zen2 is at the end of the line. Amd will produce Zen3 at TSMC 7nm and zen+ at Globalfounduries 12 or 14nm...FireSnake - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Gold reward.Haven't seen this here for quite a while.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
We haven't had a CPU worthy of one in quite a while. It's nice to be able to hand out awards like these.=)just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What's amazing about that Ryan is it's a AMD processor. It seemed like you guys really wanted to give the gold award last time around with the 3000 series... but then opted for the silver award, which wasn't to shabby as it's something that has become very uncommon even if it's a good review of a product that your impressed with. Great review by Ian, good job guys.Byte - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Save your next gold for the radeon 6900!