techspotSimCity Benchmark GPU

[csbin]

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

2560x1600 the GeForce GTX Titan takes the lead averaging 40fps. This is 2fps faster than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 3fps faster than the GTX 680. For acceptable performance at these settings gamers will want at least a GeForce GTX 660 Ti or Radeon HD 7950

 

[SPBHM]

I had no idea this game was so demanding...

but why go with DX9 for a 2013 PC only game? :|
windows xp?

 

[Grooveriding]

Any CPU benches ? Looks like CPU bottlenecking when looking at the top 4 or 5 cards.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I had no idea this game was so demanding...

but why go with DX9 for a 2013 PC only game? :|
windows xp?

Its not. My GF and I play it. And I sit back with a huge...?? On the benchmark table.

SimCity is also very unsuited for benchmark. You cant save, you might have 1000 cars on the street and air polution 60 seconds later.

Same for CPU performance. Utterly terrible benchmark.

 

[csbin]

Any CPU benches ? Looks like CPU bottlenecking when looking at the top 4 or 5 cards.

i7-3770K clocked at 4.5GHz was just 5% faster than the standard 3.5GHz configuration

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Finally, a game I can overclock past Titan performance in!

:awe:

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Nope. No matter how much you overclock you won't match a stock Titan. At least not at 1600p. A 7970ghz oc at most equals it and that is the most you can dream of at 1250+ 1500+

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Must be a wondeful game if a 200Mhz overclock and ram overclock on a 7970 nets a 5% gain.

 

[boxleitnerb]

These results are rubbish. From the looks of it it's neither a CPU nor a GPU bottleneck, which is impossible.

 

[_Rick_]

These results are rubbish. From the looks of it it's neither a CPU nor a GPU bottleneck, which is impossible.

memory-bottleneck!
IO-bottleneck!

...with bad coding anything is possible!

 

[boxleitnerb]

I still find it unlikely. If a game is poorly coded, it's either CPU or GPU resources that it needs to run properly.

 

[Olikan]

to tell the truth,
i can't see how going from 30 fps to 80 in a game like SimCity, really matters

but at the same time, i haven't bought it

 

[tipoo]

Interesting. I had no idea it would be that GPU intensive, I thought it would be more on the CPU side but it appears to hammer both.

I'd be interested in seeing low setting results for playing on laptops and such away from home.

 

[Silverforce11]

Its a crushing game with maxed settings and big cities. Which is always the case in these types of games, so it should not be a surprise.

 

[Stuka87]

I can get this game to bring my system to a crawl. And its all dependent on the lighting setting. With it on Ultra, and a city of 250k, I dip into the low 20's at time. Turn lighting to medium and my FPS will shoot up to 50 or so.

 

[-Slacker-]

Again, the FX-8350 scales very well with increased clock speed. This architecture is highly dependent on clock speed, right? At least, that's what I remember reading in the Bulldozer threads back in 2011...

 

[Stuka87]

Again, the FX-8350 scales very well with increased clock speed. This architecture is highly dependent on clock speed, right? At least, that's what I remember reading in the Bulldozer threads back in 2011...

The 8350 is Piledriver, but it does scale well with clock. Piledriver has a better IPC than Bulldozer, but still not close to Intel really. But it is a chip that is totally worth over clocking as you do gain a lot from it.

 

[Yuriman]

This is yet another game where you can drop shadows one notch and get a 25-50% performance boost, making this perfectly smooth on a 7850. I'm not saying it doesn't look better on max shadows, but the difference is minute and hard to justify several hundred dollars.

*90 hours into Sim City*

 

[Silverforce11]

This is yet another game where you can drop shadows one notch and get a 25-50% performance boost, making this perfectly smooth on a 7850. I'm not saying it doesn't look better on max shadows, but the difference is minute and hard to justify several hundred dollars.

*90 hours into Sim City*

Always been the case, you can get >90% of the IQ of max settings on mid-range setups without buying expensive top GPUs.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Shadows in cpu limited games are actually cpu limited, typically.

 

[-Slacker-]

The 8350 is Piledriver, but it does scale well with clock. Piledriver has a better IPC than Bulldozer, but still not close to Intel really. But it is a chip that is totally worth over clocking as you do gain a lot from it.

I know, I was referencing bulldozer because the are relatively similar, with wide pipelines, making them both dependent on high clock speeds.