The Passive Gigabyte & Overclocked HIS HD 6770 meet the EVGA GTX 550 Ti

Civilization V

Sid Meier’s Civilization V is one of our latest benchmarks. We are just now exploring the game – which quite frankly is not our first love. However, it is a beautiful game that takes advantage of DX11’s tessellation to produce some amazing character models. There are three benchmarks that can be run from a command line and we chose the “lateGameView” Benchmark as it looks to be a good test. You stare out over a vast area completely covered by your forces as they await your commands.

We didn’t find maxed-out details at high resolution and 8xAA to be particularly playable on either platform although the GTX 550 Ti gives the best performance by far.