Beyond Earth, instead of taking place in a historical setting (like previous titles.
RyanSmithAT: TrendForce's Intel Meteor Lake report seems to have caught the company's attention. Civilization: Beyond Earth is the sixth Civilization title in this popular series of turn-based strategy games.RyanSmithAT: I believe it's the implication that Intel is having additional manufacturing issues that really rat….They have been shipping 128/136L 6th Gen V NAND fo… Good job ganeshts: The NAND part of the quoted tweet is factually wrong. gavbon86: A very interesting piece, very insightful.At worst, you can say that the 7-17% performance advantage over the GTX 980 isn’t very impressive, though this is admittedly a game that’s not too far off from being CPU-bottlenecked.
When it comes to minimum framerates the same story continues the two GM200 cards are very close to each other, staying within 5%. Even GTX 780 Ti is not entirely immune, with GTX 980 Ti beating it by around 45% at 4K. GM200 in general is not this fast versus GK110 – there’s only so much to be done at 28nm – but against GTX 780 in particular NVIDIA’s latest card looks quite good. With this being the 2 year anniversary of the GTX 780’s release, this is especially notable since it’s such a good example of how performance has improved specifically at this $649 price point in the last 2 years. Against GTX 780 in particular, in this test we see the GTX 980 Ti deliver 70-80% better performance. I also want to quickly touch upon how the GTX 980 Ti compares to the last-generation high-end GK110 Kepler cards, the GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti. Fantrolls are the pestilence that will ruin your life. This is once again well ahead of the GTX 980 – beating it by 34% at 4K, though by less at lower resolutions where we start to get CPU-bottlenecked. Here is a cumulative list of every helpful fantroll guide, base, resource, or tutorial I could source.
Meanwhile on an absolute basis, the GM200 twin remain the only single-GPU cards to crack 60fps, with GTX 980 Ti delivering 70.5fps at the game’s most extreme setting. Even here the two are for all meaningful purposes tied. Under Civilization the gap between the two is a hair larger than in other games, at 3-4%, but this is also as large of a gap as you’ll see for average framerates. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan perform within a few percent of each other. Meanwhile as the first Mantle-enabled strategy title Civilization gives us an interesting look into low-level API performance on larger scale games, along with a look at developer Firaxis’s interesting use of split frame rendering with Mantle to reduce latency rather than improving framerates. Civilization is not quite as GPU-demanding as some of our action games, but at Ultra quality it can still pose a challenge for even high-end video cards. Shifting gears from action to strategy, we have Civilization: Beyond Earth, the latest in the Civilization series of strategy games.