Benchmarks: Civilization VI, Dawn of War Iii

Side by side up nosotros accept another DirectX 12 title: Culture VI. For testing I used the GPU benchmark and mensurate performance with PresentMon. The test runs for 30 seconds and it takes the aforementioned amount of fourth dimension on a Pentium G4560 every bit it does the 8700K for example, equally far as I tin can tell it'south an accurate test and given the results information technology has provided over time it appears very accurate.

Here we come across something different to the results simply shown when testing Battlefield 1. I'chiliad non sure what it is about Civilization VI but the game runs significantly better on AMD'due south Ryzen CPUs when using a Radeon graphics card (when playing in the DirectX 12 mode).

It's hard to say if this is an indication of how hereafter native DirectX 12 titles volition perform on Ryzen in relation to Intel, or if this title is simply some strange anomaly. Again, the testing method here doesn't favor slower processors as some believe based on data given by Gamers Nexus. For this test, we're not using the turn-based AI benchmark.

We're not really interested in how long it takes the CPU to calculate the AI'south plough and I realize this turn based game doesn't really require a high frame rate, but the frame charge per unit is still more of what I'm interested in because it could indicate how hereafter DX12 titles volition perform.

Similar margins were recorded at 1080p every bit well and this is a heavily CPU leap game so we aren't seeing much of a reduction in frame rate. This is again truthful at 1440p where the Ryzen v 1600 is a massive 47% faster than the Cadre i5-8400 when comparing the minimum frame rate upshot. Honestly I'k not sure how it'southward possible for Ryzen to be so much faster in this game but it'south not because its rendering a static scene for a longer period of time.

Dawn of War Iii is a DirectX 11 title and hither we see that the overclocked Ryzen five 1600 processor is able to match the Core i5-8400 at 720p. The average frame charge per unit was merely boosted past half-dozen% over the 1600X but that was plenty to friction match the Core i5 processor. That said the 7700K still remains out in forepart here.

Operation goes virtually unchanged at 1080p so we are plain CPU-bound hither and non limited by the Vega 64 graphics card. Much the same is also found at 1440p as well though the overclocked Ryzen 5 1600 merely edges out the Core i5-8400.