CBTotal War Attila Benchmark

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http://www.computerbase.de/2015-02/total-war-attila-12-grafikkarten-im-benchmark/

 

[ShintaiDK]

Already a benchmark thread for it.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2420662

 

[Hitman928]

Interesting results. The nvidia cards frame times look surprisingly bad, but the 290x doesn't seem to have the same issue. These are using nvidia's game ready drivers, right?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Interesting results. The nvidia cards frame times look surprisingly bad, but the 290x doesn't seem to have the same issue. These are using nvidia's game ready drivers, right?

There isnt any Attila driver release from anyone.

 

[Face2Face]

I read somewhere the Extreme preset was specifically geared towards future GPUs. Seems like the current gen struggle to get 40 FPS at 1080p.

 

[Genx87]

I will grab this when it is under 20 bucks. I have been playing Rome II against this week. Much better and more of a challenge than it used to be. And I am sure once this one is patched it will be great. But not spending 60 out of the gate for it.

 

[Hitman928]

There isnt any Attila driver release from anyone.

Gotcha, it was Evolve I was thinking of.

 

[RussianSensation]

Wow, the 970 just keeps looking worse and worse with nearly every new AAA game.

 

[Enigmoid]

Wow, the 970 just keeps looking worse and worse with nearly every new AAA game.

And this claim keeps being made despite being completely wrong.

Look at the 970 and 980 at 1600p. The 970 is doing better.

 

[tential]

I don't know why anyone tries to draw performance conclusions from day 1 releases. That only matters to those who pre order games.

 

[boozzer]

The extreme pre set has got 4x msaa. 4x msaa on 10,000 soldiers needs serious performance muscles.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

The miniscule distance between 980 and 780ti is bizarre.

 

[escrow4]

The miniscule distance between 980 and 780ti is bizarre.

No, the 980 is a pansy mid range chip whereas the 780 Ti used to be top of the line. Around 10%-15% difference, if that.

 

[tential]

No, the 980 is a pansy mid range chip whereas the 780 Ti used to be top of the line. Around 10%-15% difference, if that.

What about the difference between the GTX 780 and the GTX 970?

 

[Genx87]

Wow, the 970 just keeps looking worse and worse with nearly every new AAA game.

Which card looks good in these graphs?

 

[Red Hawk]

I'm starting to doubt just how well CPU optimized this game is. I the in-game benchmark on my brother's PC (I don't have the game myself). His system is a stock Core 2 Quad Q6600, Radeon HD 5770 1 GB @ 890/1300 MHz, 4 GB of 667 MHZ DDR2 RAM, running at 1440x900 resolution. The game was set to a mixture of performance and quality settings, I won't go too deep into detail on that. The point is, I thought the game was severely CPU limited, because even with everything turned to max performance (and unit size set to low), the in-game benchmark never returned a frame rate higher than around 20. So I bumped up the graphics settings as long as they didn't cause the framerate to drop further.

I just ran the benchmark with Afterburner monitoring in the background, and Afterburner indicated that the CPU cores were being underutilized. All four were active, but they were each fluctuating around 60% usage. Meanwhile the GPU was humming along at about 95% usage. This is unlike Dragon Age Inquisition, where each CPU core was kept at 90% usage or greater. As for other monitors, VRAM usage was around 800-900 MB (I tuned the settings so they wouldn't trigger the game's automatic downgrading to fit VRAM), and system RAM was at around 3-2.5 GB total use. There's just a load of untapped CPU performance in Total War Attila, just sitting there.

DirectX 12 can't get here fast enough.

 

[Annisman*]

Creative Assembly used to be pioneers, they would make a new engine after every 2 iterations of their Total War games. They have been milking this engine since Empire Total War (it was a great engine for it's time imo) CA has really gone down hill and I will not support another one of their games until they shape up.

 

[boozzer]

I'm starting to doubt just how well CPU optimized this game is. I the in-game benchmark on my brother's PC (I don't have the game myself). His system is a stock Core 2 Quad Q6600, Radeon HD 5770 1 GB @ 890/1300 MHz, 4 GB of 667 MHZ DDR2 RAM, running at 1440x900 resolution. The game was set to a mixture of performance and quality settings, I won't go too deep into detail on that. The point is, I thought the game was severely CPU limited, because even with everything turned to max performance (and unit size set to low), the in-game benchmark never returned a frame rate higher than around 20. So I bumped up the graphics settings as long as they didn't cause the framerate to drop further.

I just ran the benchmark with Afterburner monitoring in the background, and Afterburner indicated that the CPU cores were being underutilized. All four were active, but they were each fluctuating around 60% usage. Meanwhile the GPU was humming along at about 95% usage. This is unlike Dragon Age Inquisition, where each CPU core was kept at 90% usage or greater. As for other monitors, VRAM usage was around 800-900 MB (I tuned the settings so they wouldn't trigger the game's automatic downgrading to fit VRAM), and system RAM was at around 3-2.5 GB total use. There's just a load of untapped CPU performance in Total War Attila, just sitting there.

DirectX 12 can't get here fast enough.

get a better video card and try it out to be sure.