AMD To Partner with Firaxis on Civilization VI Development

AMD has announced that they will be partnering with Firaxis and 2K Games on the development of “Civilization VI”. This of course is the next addition to the smash hit turn-based strategy franchise. AMD will be helping developers take advantage of DirectX 12, including API-standardized Asynchronous Compute, and Explicit multi-adapter (MDA). The will allow the game to make use of PC setups that have a mixture of discrete and integrated GPUs, and mixed multi-GPU. The games will also have a built-in benchmark tool.