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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Andrew LB - Sunday, December 13, 2020 - link
5800x @ 3.6-4.7ghz draws 219w and hits 82'c and locked at 4.7ghz its 231w and 88'c.Thats hotter than my i7-10700k @ 5.1ghz all core locked.
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Thunder 57 - Monday, April 26, 2021 - link
This comment didn't age well...AndyMclamb - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
Rip AMD oner year later Intel destroys AMD with Alder Lakejeremyshaw - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yes! All I wanted to see was on the Cache and Latency parts - the unified cache allows 6 core and 12 core setups without the penalties of having partial CCXs!JfromImaginstuff - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wow, just wow,Intel, hang in there you'll get there eventually
PandaBear - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
In 2023 maybe.Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
It could be as soon as 2022 that they become properly competitive on power and performance, depending on how TSMC 5nm and Zen 4 shake out for AMD.Rocket Lake ought to at least given them presence in mid-range gaming, if you can stomach the power...
5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
No Microsoft Filght Simulator 2020 Test？5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
MFS 2020 is the great to test CPU performance in gamegagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
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