Anno 1800: PC graphics performance benchmark review - DX11 versus DX12 - CPU Core scaling

DirectX 11 versus 12

We quickly had a peek at the perf differences between DX11 and 12, we could not see much difference between the two modes.

The interesting thing is that at the closed beta the perf hit was bigger for DX11. At the current Open Beta status, that difference vanished in favor of DX11. Admittedly we did upgrade our test environment towards a Core i9 9900K, CPU limitation is just not a thing.

CPU Core Scaling

You are wondering, what would be the effect of a four-core versus an eight-core processor for this the game? Well, I have a quick chart I would like to show you, the results below are based on default clock frequencies. We apply the very same image quality settings as used throughout this article, Ultra. The proc used is the Core i9 9900K paired with a Geforce RTX 2080. Any proc starting at four cores will do fine.