Gaming 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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  • Marlin1975 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link

    "65 watt" you keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
  • YB1064 - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link

    From the first peak power chart, the 10700K consumes almost twice as much power as an equivalent AMD offering at that price point. The "65W" number is blatantly false advertising.
  • heickelrrx - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link

    10700k is not 65w part, 10700 is the one that labeled as 65w
  • Samus - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link

    Intel is just lying at this point as they are 'effectively' ~215w parts if you put them in a motherboard from Asus, Asrock, MSI, Gigabyte, etc. Only in an OEM system like an HP Elitedesk or Dell Workstation will they run anywhere close to their TDP rating but I'd guess they are using PL2 as well because why not, Intel said its ok.

    It's become painfully obvious Intel has had to resort to extreme measures here to compete. And compete is a pretty loose definition as they are using almost double the power of the competition and still slower clock for clock, dollar for dollar. No wonder Intel has shaken up the ranks, this is embarrassing.
  • Smell This - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link

    The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review:
    3700X (65w) and 3900X Raising The Bar
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen...

    I snagged a Ryzen 3700X 8c/16t for $280 3 months ago. The price is at $325 or so these days until it is supplanted by a Ryzen 5700X. Makes the Core i7-10700 at 197w very, very sad.

    Fully loaded (by Andrei & Gavin) was around 90w.
  • bananaforscale - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link

    Doesn't matter, 10700 isn't really a 65W part either. I can deal with a 105W Ryzen pulling 150W under full load but having a "65W" part pull 215W is just BS. That's over triple and will overstress crap VRMs.
  • III-V - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link

    It's peak power... Not sustained power, which is what TDP deals with.
  • shabby - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link

    It's 2.9ghz base clock uses 65w, that's what the tdp rating basically is.
    It would be nice if anandtech posted the actual wattage during each test for each cpu. Not just for many fps it got but how much wattage it used in that test.
  • Qasar - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link

    specially for games. keep reading how some say in games, intel is still better then amd when it comes to power usage, but dont really see much about it.
  • scottlarm - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link

    gfh

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