Performances dans Civilization: Beyond Earth : Specs | CPU | Hashrate | Review | Config

Hi all !

Having had the opportunity to get my hands on Sid Meier’s civilization: Beyond Earth, I told myself that a quick little performance test with and without Mantle was in order! The purpose of this article is not to explain how Mantle works but to see the concrete results that one can hope to have by opting for an AMD card, whether with an Intel processor or an AMD processor, it is is gone!

For the tests 2 machines are available, a machine based on an Intel processor and an AMD machine:

Intel:

• Processor: Intel Core i5 4670K
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87-UD5H TH
• Memory: Kingston HyperX 4 x 2 Go 1600Mhz
• Hard disk: WD Raptor 150 Go
• Food: Seasonic X650
• Drivers: Catalyst 14.9.2 beta
• Operating system: Windows 8.1 64bits

AMD:

• Processor: AMD FX8370E
• Motherboard: Asrock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer
• Memory: Kingston HyperX 4 x 2 Go 1600Mhz
• Hard disk: WD Raptor 150 Go
• Food: Seasonic X650
• Drivers: Catalyst 14.9.2 beta
• Operating system: Windows 8.1 64bits

For the purposes of the test I used the graphics cards at my disposal, namely:

• XFX R9 290 Double Dissipation (tested here)
• Asus R9 280 Strix (tested here)
• Gigabyte R9 270 OC (tested here)
• Sapphire HD5850 Toxic

Yes even a small Radeon HD5850, it can’t hurt to see how it does in today’s games, note that unfortunately Mantle is not compatible with cards of this generation 🙁

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond earth offers an integrated benchmark displaying a good number of units on the map supposed to represent a well advanced and CPU intensive game, this is what I will use to compare the maps.
Graphics settings will be set to “Ultra”, 8XMSAA with Vsync disabled.

First observation, without Mantle the Core i5 4670K is much more powerful than the FX8370E, which is nothing new but once Mantle is activated, it must be admitted that the results are then very very close between the 2 processors.
The R9 270 without Mantle displays 43.8 FPS for the Core i5 against 37.3 FPS for the FX8370E, once activated the Core i5 goes up to 49.9 FPS (+6.1 FPS) against 48 FPS for the FX (+10.7 FPS), an optimization that mainly benefits the less swift AMD processor than the Intel.
With the R9 280 the results are rather similar compared to its little sister the R9 270, we go from 49.9 FPS to 58.1 FPS (+8.2 FPS) for the Core i5 and from 40.7 FPS to 56.8 FPS (+16.1 FPS) for the FX8370E, once again the AMD processor is thrilled and is almost catching up on the Intel.
In the turn of the R9 290, which is the most powerful card in this small test and there it is the slap, the Intel Core i5 4670K processor goes from 56.2 FPS to 94.7 FPS (+38.5 FPS or + 68.5%) and the AMD FX8370E from 46.5 FPS to 83.8 FPS (+37.3 FPS or + 80.2%). What to say? The gain is simply enormous when using a powerful graphics card and especially with a slower processor, too bad I don’t have less powerful processors in my possession to test more in depth.

You will have understood Mantle can be lifesaving when a game is very greedy in processor resources and Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is no exception, the results are really enormous when a high-end graphics card is installed, with medium cards. range the results are also present but to a lesser extent.
Anyway if you have an AMD graphics card there is no reason to go without Mantle in the latest Civilization, the performance will be even better!

Where to find Civilization: Beyond Earth?

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