Benchmarks: Civilization IV, Dawn of War III

Next up we have some other DirectX 12 title: Civilisation VI. For testing I used the GPU benchmark and measured performance with PresentMon. The exam runs for 30 seconds and it takes the same amount of time on a Pentium G4560 as it does the 8700K for case, as far as I can tell it's an accurate exam given the results it has provided over time.

At 720p we come across quite a large difference between the Core i5-7600K and Core i7-7700K. The i7 model is 24% faster when comparing the minimum frame charge per unit. However, the 7700K is only able to match the Ryzen v 1500X in this title and is therefore slower than both the 1600X and 1800X.

The new 8700K is only a fraction faster than the 7700K and its minimum frame rate of 68fps places it roughly on par with the 1500X and 1600X while the 1800X is still a good bit faster. Notation that the Ryzen CPUs don't look nearly every bit impressive in this title when using a GeForce graphics card.

Civilization VI is a heavily CPU jump title and therefore moving to 1080p doesn't alter much, though it did assist extend the Ryzen 7 1800X's margin ever so slightly.

At 1440p the frame charge per unit is once again slightly reduced just the margins all remain much the same.

Dawn of War Iii

Dawn of State of war Three is a DirectX 11 title and information technology doesn't play particularly well with the Ryzen CPUs when compared to the competing Intel parts. The Ryzen 7 1800X and R5 1600X are actually but able to match the Core i5-7600K while the rest of Intel line up pulls well ahead.

The new Core i7-8700K for example is roughly 20% faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X and R5 1600X. Little changes when increasing the resolution to 1080p, here the faster Intel CPUs just drib a frame or two. And so finally at 1440p we drop a few more frames just overall the margins remain much the same.