AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 5950X, 5900X, 5800X and 5600X Tested
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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Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
AMD discounts old stock until gone __ it is hard to keep up.
I prefer *less than bleeding edge* __ the example you have given is the Ryzen 5 3600.
$149.06 at Amazon has me interested {| ;--|)
nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
3600X was $250 at launch. You are comparing a discounted 3600 price to a newly released CPU... of a higher tier (non-X vs. X)... during a pandemic with mostly heightened tech prices.Prices will come down, and Ryzen 5 5600 is rumored to come in at $220 in early 2021.
Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
You have to back that up ~~~ LOL
The Ryzen 5 5600x is butting heads with the i7-10770K at $387 (or $88 less). Is this one of your Ass Facts?
nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
It will come down just like Ryzen 3000 CPUs went down. Probably in response to Rocket Lake in Q1.Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I don't know.
The AMD product mix is seriously stout with last gen with +2 threads. a 3700X is killer and comparable to the new 5600X. There will be a 5600 but at $260 will slobber-knock Intel 6-core
silverblue - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
nandnandnand did say it was a rumour, so there's no need to be rude. A quick search on Google brought up articles on The Guru of 3D, KitGuru, TweakTown, OC3D, NotebookCheck and TechPowerUp, either referring to a Korean translation or a table from VideoCardz.com. One theory is that AMD is waiting for 400-series BIOS updates to be released.Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Backed up by WCCF ?? LOL
~~ you guys have bumped your heads
silverblue - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
And you're just a troll with no counter-argument, and nothing of interest to add.Smell This - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Troll? LOLOnce again, you guys have bumped your heads. It is all a circle-jerk that links back to itself and WCCF
"Source: @harukaze5719 via Wccftech"
"Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor."
"Recently, this article was posted, but I couldn't find the post's source. 😭 My search ability is still low…"
Bigger LOL __ You included searches that have nothing to do with NotebookCheck and TechPowerUp
Who is the TROLL??? HA!
Go away
silverblue - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
1) The word "rumor" has been emphasised on various occasions. How you're struggling to comprehend that is beyond me.2) AMD will launch lower-end parts within one or two quarters. It's what they've done since Zen came out in 2017.
3) NotebookCheck did indeed make a news post referencing harukaze5719
4) TechPowerUp did indeed credit the source of their news post to @harukaze5719