Civilization: Beyond Earth Gaming Performance Benchmarked – AMD Versus NVIDIA

The Test System

Before we look at the numbers, let’s take a brief look at the test system that was used. The Intel X99 platform that we used to test the Cilization: Beyond Earth is running the ASUS X99-Deluxe motherboard with UEFI/BIOS 0904 that came out on 9/22/2014. An Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E processor was used to power the system and a Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD with 19nm MLC NAND and firmware M311 kept the Windows 8.1 installation chugging along. All NVIDIA graphics cards were tested with GeForce 344.48 WHQL drivers and the AMD Radeon cards were tested with Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta drivers.

Intel X99 Test Platform:

Here is a quick look at the CPU-Z information for our main test system that we’ll be doing the testing on.

Intel LGA2011-v3 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core i7-5960X	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS X99 Deluxe	Click Here
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000MHz	Click Here
Video Card	Various	Click Here
Hard Drive	Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD	Click Here
Cooling	Corsair H105	Click Here
Keyboard	Corsair K95	Click Here
Mouse	Corsair M95	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair AX860i	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 8.1 64-Bit	Click Here

Let’s get on to the testing!