Is this game worth ? I guess It's not ! who does play this crappy game?
Something is obviously wrong with the Fury X, if it only performs ~11% better than the rx 480 @ 1080p. Hopefully we'll see a fix for it soon, or maybe performance improvements from DX 12.
Although, the 1060 6gb has a 30% FPS advantage over the 480 which is also really abnormally high.
As a side note, I like that I already know what to expect from benchmark results these days based on who is posting the thread.
Civ games tend to be very CPU intensive and often the limiting factor is the CPU. Having a lower over head DX11 driver will matter a lot for the game if it is like previous games. Notice Carfax83's first graph, before the DX11 parallelism patch, Nvidia cards and AMD cards are both CPU bound, as you can see there is no improvement between several different performing cards.GF is a huge Civ fan, so she'll be happy to hear the DX11 version is performing good.
Interested to see what DX12 brings, because those numbers are horrid for AMD. Isn't this game suppose to have a more simplified/lower-IQ based engine? At least thats what she has told me. However, the animations I guess are better so perhaps that nasty driver overhead is showing up again on AMD's side. DX12 should make a huge difference for team RED on this title.
DX12 will likely be important for good AMD performance. They did eventually add Mantle support for Civ 5, so it is possible it will get Vulkan or DX12 support eventually.
Gamers Can Depend on Radeon(TM) GPUs for a World Class DirectX(R) 12 Experience With Full Support for Asynchronous Compute and Explicit Multi-Adapter
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/13/16 -- Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), 2K and Firaxis Games announced a technical partnership to implement a truly exceptional DirectX® 12 renderer for Radeon™ GPUs into the graphics engine powering Sid Meier's Civilization® VI.
Complete with support for advanced DirectX® 12 features like asynchronous compute and explicit multi-adapter, PC gamers the world over will be treated to a high-performance and highly-parallelized game engine perfectly suited to sprawling civilizations designed to win hearts, minds, and the stars.
"Radeon™ graphics cards have rapidly become the definitive platform for next-generation DirectX® 12 content," said Roy Taylor, corporate vice president of alliances,Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. "We're thrilled to bring our leading DirectX® 12 hardware and expertise to bear in the next installment of the Civilization franchise, which has long been adored by gamers for its intoxicating mix of beautiful graphics and hopelessly addictive gameplay."
"For 25 years the Civilization franchise has set the standard for beautiful and masterfully crafted turn based strategy," said Steve Meyer, Director of Software Development, Firaxis Games. "AMD has been a premiere contributor to that reputation in past Civilization titles, and we're excited to once again join forces to deliver a landmark experience in Sid Meier's Civilization® VI."
DirectX® 12 Asynchronous Compute
Asynchronous compute is a DirectX® 12 feature exclusively supported by the Graphics Core Next or Polaris architectures found in many AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. This powerful feature allows for parallel execution of compute and graphics tasks, substantially reducing the time other architectures need to execute the same workloads in a longer step-by-step manner. Asynchronous compute on many Radeon™ GPUs will perfectly complement the unit-rich late game of Civilization VI.
DirectX® 12 Explicit Multi-Adapter
Explicit multi-adapter represents the first time the DirectX® graphics API has officially supported multi-GPU configurations for gamers. Though past versions of the DirectX® API did not prevent multi-GPU support, there were no extensions that specifically aided its addition. DirectX® 12 explicit multi-adapter not only adds officialMicrosoft support, but augments that support with a range of powerful features and flexibility to unleash the imagination of a game developer. The benefit of multi-GPU can be legion: higher framerates, lower input latency, capacity for higher image quality and more. Explicit multi-adapter support will be an excellent feature addition for Radeon™ graphics customers who demand the very most from their Civilization VI experience.
A History of Collaboration
AMD, 2K and Firaxis Games have a history of intense technical collaboration for the good of PC gamers. Highlights include:
- Adding DirectX® 11 support to Sid Meier's Civilization® V;
- Co-development of Mantle, the world's first low-overhead PC graphics API;
- Integration of the Mantle API into Sid Meier's Civilization® Beyond Earth™;
- Development of the first modern split-frame rendering (SFR) multi-GPU implementation in Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth
This is the first civ game in a long time where the majority, if not all, of the systems are in in the base game. All of the stuff like trade, religion, espionage, and the other systems that came from Civ 4/5 DLC are in the base game. It is quite nice. Seems they finally learned something from civ 4 through beyond earth about people not wanting to buy they base game. That was always the complaint before. Civ 3 was better than 4 until 4 got its DLC. Civ 4+DLC was better than 5 until DLC and so on. It doesn't feel that way at all atm. It honestly feels like diving into the deep end of the pool at the start with so many systems and this is coming from someone who has been playing civ since civ 1. Fantastic game btw so far.This is a Civ game. Regardless of performance, it is going to take a year and a couple major patches to make it decent and then an expansion to make it a truly great game. Smart move is to wait until a steam sale for the base game, you will have a much better experience.
I mean looking at the benchmark video, there is nothing special or should be having such poor GPU performance.
https://youtu.be/Bj8Ywxye4AI?t=108
Huge frametime spike while nothing is changing on the screen...
Given that Civ BE had Mantle, and one of the only SFR implementations we've ever seen (and a good one at that), I'd put money on the Civ 6 DX12 implementation turning out well. Probably 6 months out though. I keep saying it, but these days you don't really get the finished game until 6 months after release... I love Civ as much as the next guy (or more) but I can't condone the practice of crappy day 1 launches. I will wait to buy until they've fixed it up and send that message with my $$
This is way zoomed out, this way its very CPU limited.
Any idea why it gets the massive stutters near the end (few seconds after were I linked)?