techspotSimCity Benchmark CPU

[csbin]

http://www.techspot.com/review/648-simcity-performance/

Dual-core processors are fairly useless and even the Core i3-3220 was limited to just 23fps

 

[SPBHM]

poor performance by the i3, and when you consider the price difference ($130 to $180) for some i5 like the 3.1GHz 3350P, it's hard to justify not going with the i5 for a gaming PC,
it would be almost twice the framerate for this.

the 920 still delivers amazing performance considering the low clock.

 

[frozentundra123456]

http://www.techspot.com/review/648-simcity-performance/

Dual-core processors are fairly useless and even the Core i3-3220 was limited to just 23fps

Gpu limited with the intel processors and a titan? Seems really poorly optimized. Is there a dx 10 or dx11 option?

 

[ShintaiDK]

poor performance by the i3, and when you consider the price difference ($130 to $180) for some i5 like the 3.1GHz 3350P, it's hard to justify not going with the i5 for a gaming PC,
it would be almost twice the framerate for this.

the 920 still delivers amazing performance considering the low clock.

There is no reason the i3 should score what it does. Specially not when the game rarely if ever passes 30% CPU usage on a quad.

Also the benchmark is hugely flawed. I own Simcity and so does my GF. And I cant even relate to those benches. Not to mention its impossible to rerun 2 exact benchmarks in that game.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Is there a dx 10 or dx11 option?

Nope.

 

[CHADBOGA]

The FX-8350 is so much better than the FX-8150, it isn't funny.

 

[csbin]

Gpu limited with the intel processors and a titan? Seems really poorly optimized. Is there a dx 10 or dx11 option?

only DirectX 9.0c^_^

 

[Olikan]

Also the benchmark is hugely flawed. I own Simcity and so does my GF. And I cant even relate to those benches. Not to mention its impossible to rerun 2 exact benchmarks in that game.

...even if used the same saved games, and do nothing for 1 minute?

to tell the truth, i can't see a game like SimCity would really be beneficial getting high frames...just not having deeps or shutters and the gameplay would be flawless

 

[ShintaiDK]

...even if used the same saved games, and do nothing for 1 minute?

to tell the truth, i can't see a game like SimCity would really be beneficial getting high frames...just not having deeps or shutters and the gameplay would be flawless

You cant use the same savegames. It will always be a progressive play. So even if you only bench for 1 minute. The 20th bench will be 20 minutes later ingame.

 

[beginner99]

You cant use the same savegames. It will always be a progressive play. So even if you only bench for 1 minute. The 20th bench will be 20 minutes later ingame.

That sucks. I hated when a hurricane flattened my just newly build area and basically made me broke. -> reload...

 

[grimpr]

poor performance by the i3, and when you consider the price difference ($130 to $180) for some i5 like the 3.1GHz 3350P, it's hard to justify not going with the i5 for a gaming PC,
it would be almost twice the framerate for this.

the 920 still delivers amazing performance considering the low clock.

It just shows that Dualcores even with HT are at their vanishing point for modern titles. The Core i7 920 has the cores and the threads to stand besides the newer chips.

 

[jhu]

I call shens. No one can get that game to work properly let alone long enough to run benchmarks.

 

[podspi]

I call shens. No one can get that game to work properly let alone long enough to run benchmarks.

Plus I would imagine the results depend on the internet connection, since the game offloads a ton to the cloud </sarcasm>

At least we'll always have Simcity 2K :biggrin:

 

[ShintaiDK]

That sucks. I hated when a hurricane flattened my just newly build area and basically made me broke. -> reload...

One of the new griefs is if you build a nuclear plant and it either explodes or gets hit. Radiation for 20-30 years. And thats a long time.

 

[Acanthus]

Pretty much scales with clockspeed, IPC, and cache. No real surprise considering the engine is basically single threaded. It only offloads the graphics rendering to the 2nd core.

Hence the extremely low CPU usage.

 

[Dribble]

Graph doesn't match up with my experience. This runs fine on my old laptop with a dual 2.4 core 2 and geforce 9500GS. Sure settings are low but the game is completely playable and while not shiny shiny doesn't look ugly.

Hence if you turn the settings down which in the real world people with old cpu's will as they won't be running a titan and it's fine.

 

[Haserath]

It looks like it uses a lot of cache instead of cores.

Athlon X2 to Phenom X2 is almost doubled.

I think that's why it seems to scale so well for the 920 and PD since they have a decent cache size.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Seems like pretty low performance for some of those top end chips. This game is very CPU limited for sure.

 

[crashtech]

I don't understand why the moar core chips did better when it was said in the review that the game only utilized 4 cores. If only 4 cores were being used, the 3930K should be slower than the 3770K.

 

[inf64]

39xxK has moar cache . Also moar memory BW which never hurts. All in all: moar moar which is bettar.

 

[frozentundra123456]

39xxK has moar cache . Also moar memory BW which never hurts. All in all: moar moar which is bettar.

Yea, but it also looks GPU limited. Both hex core intels, 3770k and 3570k are essentially the same framerate. Also doesn't scale with clockspeed with intel but does with AMD, although never quite reaching intel at much lower speed.

Very strange results overall.

 

[Acanthus]

I don't understand why the moar core chips did better when it was said in the review that the game only utilized 4 cores. If only 4 cores were being used, the 3930K should be slower than the 3770K.

it's a crap benchmark and there is a huge margin of error.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Glad to see my overclocked i7-930 shouldn't be a limiting factor.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

I love my i7 920 :$

 

[Markfw]

What is with the weird characters in your title ?