Anno 2205: Performance Analysis

W1zzard · Nov 5, 2015

The latest installment of the Anno series sends you to the moon to harvest precious minerals. We tested the game using 11 of the latest graphics cards, at four resolutions each, to determine what kind of hardware is required to play Anno 2205 at its highest settings.

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xorbe · Nov 5, 2015

Would like to see the same charts for the other presets also (Very High, High, Medium, Low.)

Zakin · Nov 5, 2015

It seems to just be the View Distance and Shader quality bringing it down, with AA off and those two on just High, I get a pretty liquid smooth 60~ except for every now and then 50s~. Game is absolutely gorgeous though, hopefully the memory leak bug is fixed, but it only seems to hit my PC around 4-5 hours of constant playing, but I do have 16GBs of ram. Highly recommended.

KrachB00Mente · Nov 6, 2015

Thanks for testing 4k with 4xAA Whats the point?!

RustyKats · Nov 6, 2015

Great write-up. 4x AA is freaken insane on performance at any resolution.. seems this game is badly optimized for AA.

On Steam forums, AMD owners are reporting a big performance gain with Tessellation override at x8/16. You guys want to take a look?

xorbe · Nov 6, 2015

RustyKats said:
On Steam forums, AMD owners are reporting a big performance gain with Tessellation override at x8/16. You guys want to take a look?

There's a throw-down thread over at [H] about Anno 2205 and all this. It has DRM beyond Steam still, so no thanks.

SIGSEGV · Nov 6, 2015

meh..
even city skylines is way more better than this games. don't wanna play this games even its free ! tropico.. are you kidding me ?

Hiryougan · Nov 6, 2015

On charts there is "R9 370". There is no such card. You meant R7 370 i recon.

I wonder how performance scales with lowering the settings or even turning off AA. Because ultra seems a bit crazy. What settings are recommended for ~30fps for R7 370/265/7870?

Roph · Nov 6, 2015

I'd love to play these games. I'm still ready to buy anno 2070, but as long as it's got uplay, no :/

SmokingCrop · Nov 7, 2015

Roph said:
I'd love to play these games. I'm still ready to buy anno 2070, but as long as it's got uplay, no :/

Uplay is just fine.. especially since the september update..

darkangel0504 · Nov 7, 2015

Anno 1404 is the best.

Rowsol · Nov 8, 2015

I'm just glad some games are pushing current high end hardware.

medi01 · Nov 9, 2015

What makes this game worth a separate article, besides "great job crippling non-maxwell cards"? (970 beating 780Ti, 960 not only being faster than 380, but nearly twice as fast, "impressive")

Zakin · Nov 9, 2015

medi01 said:
What makes this game worth a separate article, besides "great job crippling non-maxwell cards"? (970 beating 780Ti, 960 not only being faster than 380, but nearly twice as fast, "impressive")

You're right, I guess the developers went back and did the same thing on Anno 2070 as well? (That game predates Maxwell quite a bit, and shows the exact same thing with 900s series ahead) Almost like it just likes the architecture optimizations or something. A few games have shown this. Also AMD thing is nothing new, on quite a few titles unfortunately.

Processor	Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory	48 GB
Video Card(s)	RTX 4080
Storage	2x HDD RAID 1, 3x M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	30" 2560x1600 + 19" 1280x1024
Software	Windows 10 64-bit

System Name	msdos
Processor	8086
Motherboard	mainboard
Cooling	passive
Memory	640KB + 384KB extended
Video Card(s)	EGA
Storage	5.25"
Display(s)	80x25
Case	plastic
Audio Device(s)	modchip
Power Supply	45 watts
Mouse	serial
Keyboard	yes
Software	disk commander
Benchmark Scores	still running

System Name	Lowman
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Motherboard	Asus X570 Gaming E
Cooling	3x 360mm Radiator D5 Pump
Memory	4x 16GB 3600 Trident Z Neo
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon RX 6900XT Merc 319 Black + Alphacool Eisblock Aurora
Storage	2x Samsung 970 Evo M.2 1TB + SSDs + Nas
Display(s)	LG Ultragear 34gn850, 2x Dell S2721DGFA, Samsung G9 Odyssey, Philips 4K 40" (BDM4065UC),
Case	Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL + front Distro Plate
Audio Device(s)	NI Komplete Audio 2, JBL 305, Teufel SW5000 THX Sub, Rode NT1-A Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless
Power Supply	ASUS ROG Thor Platinum 850w
Mouse	Logitech G903
Keyboard	Logitech G815
VR HMD	Oculus Quest 2
Software	Windows 11
Benchmark Scores	Timespy 18630

System Name	msdos
Processor	8086
Motherboard	mainboard
Cooling	passive
Memory	640KB + 384KB extended
Video Card(s)	EGA
Storage	5.25"
Display(s)	80x25
Case	plastic
Audio Device(s)	modchip
Power Supply	45 watts
Mouse	serial
Keyboard	yes
Software	disk commander
Benchmark Scores	still running

System Name	SIGSEGV
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
Motherboard	MSI MEG ACE X670E
Cooling	Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC Fan 3000RPM \| Arctic P14 MAX
Memory	Fury Beast 64 Gb CL30
Video Card(s)	TUF 4090 OC
Storage	1TB 7200/256 SSD PCIE \| ~ TB \| 970 Evo \| WD Black SN850X 2TB
Display(s)	27" /34"
Case	O11 EVO XL
Audio Device(s)	Realtek
Power Supply	FSP Hydro TI 1000
Mouse	g402
Keyboard	Leopold\|Ducky
Software	LinuxMint
Benchmark Scores	i dont care about scores

Processor	i5-4670k
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65
Cooling	Magicool G2 Slim 240+360, Watercool Heatkiller 3.0, Alphacool GPX 290 M05
Memory	G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3 2x4GB 2133MHz CL9
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Radeon R9 290
Storage	Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 320GB+1TB HDDs
Case	SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 Pure Black
Power Supply	Chieftec Navitas GPM-1000C

System Name	It does stuff
Processor	Ryzen 5700X3D
Motherboard	B550 Gaming X V2
Cooling	Thermalright Assassin X SE
Memory	16GB DDR4 3600
Video Card(s)	RX 6700XT
Storage	Too much
Display(s)	31.5" 2560x1440, 27" 1920x1080, 24" 1200x1920
Case	Antec 300
Audio Device(s)	Xonar DGX
Power Supply	Corsair 750W

Processor	Intel Core i7-9700K
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra
Cooling	Corsair Hydro H150i Pro
Memory	2x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3000 Mhz
Video Card(s)	Inno3D iChill GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 1TB
Display(s)	Asus RoG PG279Q Swift
Case	Fractal Design Define S2 Gunmetal
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar Essence STX II (Sennheiser HD 650)
Power Supply	Corsair HX750i
Mouse	Logitech G903
Keyboard	Corsair K70 (Black)
Software	W10 x64

System Name	Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600 @4.65 GHz
Motherboard	Asus ROG X570-E
Cooling	Thermalright
Memory	32 GB 3200 MHz
Video Card(s)	Asus RX 6700XT 12 GB Dual
Storage	1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus
Display(s)	SS QHD 144Hz + LG 55 Inch 4K
Case	Corsair 4000D
Power Supply	Superflower 850

Processor	12100
Video Card(s)	1650 Super
Case	Coolermaster Ammo 533
Mouse	G403
Keyboard	Sidewinder x4

System Name	M3401 notebook
Processor	5600H
Motherboard	NA
Memory	16GB
Video Card(s)	3050
Storage	500GB SSD
Display(s)	14" OLED screen of the laptop
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	3050 scores good 15-20% lower than average, despite ASUS's claims that it has uber cooling.

Anno 2205: Performance Analysis

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