DirectX 11: graphics card performance Full HD & WHQD

We say 40 FPS for any game should be your minimum threshold, while 60 FPS (frames per second) or higher can be considered optimal. But with RTS gaming things are a bit different, as such we are very comfortable with an FPS ranging as low as 30~35 FPS. Gaming below 30 FPS is consider to be poor.

At all times if your framerate is low, you can forfeit on image quality settings. For example you could lower your anti-aliasing mode or even disable it. It's the small tweaks herein that will allow you to balance out performance versus image quality settings. We test at Ultra High quality settings, however dropped 8xAA (default) to 4xAA. This offers a very nice boost in performance making it the optimal setting for Anno 2205 with mainstream and faster cards.

Above the most popular and use monitor resolution at 1920x1080 pixels also known as Full HD. Any card measured starting at the GeForce GTX 770 or Radeon R9 280/285 series really is fast enough for the rendering engine at good image quality settings. AMD cards suffer from API overhead in 1080P, something that will pick up for the better in higher resolutions. 

Cost /perf / resolution wise combined adn weighed we'd recommend a GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon R9 380. Both cards sit in the 200 EURO/USD range.

For the m ore hardcore PC gamers a preferred resolution is WQHD which is short for Wide Quad HD, a resolution of 2560x1440. Let's just call this the more more sexy resolution opposed to Full HD. Again, these are Ultra High quality settings with 4xAA enabled (opposed to 8xAA which is triggered as default)

Starting at a GeForce GTX 970 or an AMD Radeon R9 290 you can already game in 2560x1440 if you wanted too with these terrific quality settings. Interesting to see is the strong lead for the GTX 980 Ti over the Fury X. AMD seems to have some work cutout for them optimizations wise.