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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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Badelhas - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
I totally agree. I've upgraded from the last true overclocking champion from Intel (i5 2500k @4.8ghz from 8 years ago) to the 3600, it was finally worth it but going from 200 to 300 euros is a bit to much of an increase in price, in my humble opinionSpunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
They're not really comparable, though. I'm weirded out by how many people are comparing the 3600 to the 5600X. The X is a bit of a giveaway.Kallan007 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
I just buy new and sell off the old. But if you want a price break then just wait.Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
I doubt it will. They'll sell every one they can make, and if not, there's no reason they can't begin to lower prices as supply begins to exceed demand.Threska - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link
Socket longevity is the important thing here for anyone playing the value game. You may not buy the latest and greatest NOW, but the future allows for it without starting completely over.UNCjigga - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I suppose the only thing missing is a chipset/IO package with USB 4 support? Not a big deal for desktops--but I hope they have that figured out by the time Zen 3 is ready for mobile parts.Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
That would be nice to see. I have a suspicion we won't see it until the new socket arrives on desktop, but would be good to get it with Cezanne on mobile.Machinus - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Looks like a great set of chips for anyone who gets one mailed to them directly from AMD.Good luck buying one in a store.
charlesg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I have to say I'm disappointed in the availability of the 5900 and 5950. I expected better.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yea honestly isn't this the whole point of the chiplet model? Or is the IO die different for the 2-chiplet models? I assume it's not packaging constraints because that makes no sense.