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I thought it might help if we posted our Mac specs and the score we get from the Civ 6 benchmark option (main screen right below tutorial). This might help folks that are wondering if their rig will run the game or if they're on the fence about buying it because it's technically below the minimum options.
So that we're comparing apples to apples:
From the main menu, pick game options and then graphics. Turn the two sliders to minimum. Click advanced options and make sure all options are unchecked. Post your specs and score below and I'll update the thread. If there's anything I'm missing or suggestions, please let me know.

*** Edit ***
Added a late game save (turn 393) with a fair amount going on. DL, press end turn, use a stop watch or 1 Mississippi it and report turn time. Hopefully there's still some optimization coming but it was much slower than it seemed while playing. I used the lowest res again.

*** Edit ***
Played around with quick move and quick combat this morning. Turning both of them on reduced my turn time from 55 seconds to 23 seconds. Didn't notice any change in turn time with autosaves (the other factor mentioned in a windows thread) but I'm running on an SSD so that may be the difference. Listed times below if anyone is interested and wants to post theirs also.

2011

Mid 2011 iMac 27-inch, 3,4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB

Average Frame Time: 38.703ms
99th Percentile: 75.889ms


2012

Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro, El Capitan, 2.3 GHz i7, 8 GB, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M (window mode)
Average: 99.379 ms
99th percentile: 225.158 ms

Mid 2012 MBP, 15" non-Retina, Sierra, 2.6 Ghz i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 GB Geforce GT 650M
Average: 100 ms
99th percentile: 161 ms

Late 2012 Mac Mini 6,2, Sierra, 2.3GHz i7, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris HD 4000 Screen resolution 1920x1200
Average: 92.413 ms
99th Percentile: 116.432 ms

2013

2013 Mac Pro w/ D700 and Quad 3.7 GHz
Minimum settings @ 2560x1600 = 48ms
Ultra settings @ 2560x1600 = 73ms

Mid 2013 MBP, 13" non-Retina, Sierra, 2.5 Ghz i5, 8 GB RAM,
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Average: 86 ms
99th percentile: 118 ms

Late 2013, iMac 27 in, 3.5 Ghz Core i7, 16GB RAM, NVIDEA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB, Fullscreen mode
Quick combat enabled, quick movement enabled:
Average: 56.67 ms
99th Percentile: 87.375 ms
Quick combat disabled, quick movement enabled:
Average: 55.3 ms
99th Percentile: 94.59 ms
Quick combat disabled, quick movement disabled:
Average: 46.496 ms
99th Percentile: 73.365 ms
Quick combat enabled, quick movement disabled:
Average: 53.596 ms
99th Percentile: 87.282 ms

Late 2013 Imac 27 inch, Sierra, 3.5 ghz I7, 16 gig ram, Geforce GTX 780M 4 gig
Average: 49 ms
99th percentile: 80 ms
Turn time: 55 seconds (quick combat/move off)
Turn time: 23 seconds (quick combat/move on)

Late 2013 MBP, 15 inch Retina, Sierra, 2.3 ghz I7, 16 gig ram, Geforce GT 750m 2 gig
Average: 77 ms
99th percentile: 109
Turn time: 26 seconds (quick combat/move on)

2014

Late 2014 iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GBytes RAM, AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048 MB, 120 GBytes SSD,1 TByte HD
Average: 53.7 ms
99th percentile: 573 ms (not sure I believe this number!)

Late 2014 Retina iMac 27 inch, El Capitan, 4 ghz I7, 16 gig ram, Radeon R9 M295X 4 gig
Average: 42 ms
99th percentile: 72 ms

2015

Early 2015 Macbook Pro, 2.7 ghz Intel i5, 8 GB ram, Intel Iris 6100
Average Frame Time: 44.168ms
99th Percentile: 54.957ms
Average Turn Time: 35.22 sec



Mid 2015 MBP, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, Intel Iris Graphics 6100
Average: 63.628 ms
99th Percentile: 94.847 ms
With Quick Combat/Quick Move:
Average 68.488
99th Percentile: 98.167
It seems to run fine, although slow between turns at the end.

2016

2016 15" MBP, 2.7Ghz i7, AMD Radeon 460, 16GB RAM, 4GB VRAM
All tests performed in fullscreen 1680 x 1050 (highest resolution available for some reason). Antialiasing off, Quick Moves on, Quick Combat on.
Low Res
Average: 34.043
99th Percentile: 46.103
Ultra Res:
Average: 73.110
99th Percentile: 96.523
 

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Great idea for a thread!

Mid 2012 MBP, 15" non-Retina, Sierra, 2.6 Ghz i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 GB Geforce GT 650M
Average: 100 ms
99th percentile: 161 ms

I did this in max-res windowed mode. I don't know if that makes a difference.
 
Late 2014 Retina iMac 27 inch, El Capitan, 4 ghz I7, 16 gig ram, Radeon R9 M295X 4 gig
Average: 42 ms
99th percentile: 72 ms

Edit: I just realized I ran this with the sliders set on medium.
 
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Great idea for a thread!

Mid 2012 MBP, 15" non-Retina, Sierra, 2.6 Ghz i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 GB Geforce GT 650M
Average: 100 ms
99th percentile: 161 ms

I did this in max-res windowed mode. I don't know if that makes a difference.
I'm not sure either. If you get a chance run it full screen and see if there's any difference.
Also thought I'd add a save game file from late game and see how long turn's take. I'm happy it works, so it doesn't matter to me, but some folks may not want to wait x seconds late game.
 
Mid 2013 MBP, 13" non-Retina, Sierra, 2.5 Ghz i5, 8 GB RAM,
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Average: 86 ms
99th percentile: 118 ms
 
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
3.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GBytes RAM
AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048 MB
120 GBytes SSD
1 TByte HD

53.7mS average
573mS 99% - not sure I believe this number!

This was in windowed mode. I think I had tweaked one of the graphics options.
 
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
3.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GBytes RAM
AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048 MB
120 GBytes SSD
1 TByte HD

53.7mS average
573mS 99% - not sure I believe this number!

This was in windowed mode. I think I had tweaked one of the graphics options.
yeah, that number doesn't seem likely given your average. I'm off today so may play with window mode and some of the graphic options. It seemed (no evidence) that my turn time was slower with the graphics turned all the way down. There's another thread that suggests ways to decrease turn times. I'm going to play with some of those options also.

Edit: I ran a test on my iMac in windows mode. It changed the average by +1 ms and -6 99th. Not enough difference to matter. I wonder if the 99th in your case was just a hiccup (something stalled for half a second)?
 
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Mac Mini 6,2 (Late 2012)
OS X 10.12 Sierra
2.3GHz Intel Core i7 (quad-core)
16GB RAM
Intel Iris HD 4000
1TB hard drive
Screen resolution 1920x1200

Average: 92.413 ms
99th Percentile: 116.432 ms
 
Mac Mini 6,2 (Late 2012)
OS X 10.12 Sierra
2.3GHz Intel Core i7 (quad-core)
16GB RAM
Intel Iris HD 4000
1TB hard drive
Screen resolution 1920x1200

Average: 92.413 ms
99th Percentile: 116.432 ms

Wow. I' surprised your is so much faster than mine is. I wonder if I'd be better off adding more RAM.
 
mid-2015 MBP, Stock

2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB RAM
Intel Iris Graphics 6100

Average: 63.628 ms
99th Percentile: 94.847 ms

With Quick Combat/Quick Move:

Average 68.488
99th Percentile: 98.167

It seems to run fine, although slow between turns at the end.
 
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Can someone please explain the benchmark result figures? I can't remember what "ms" is to understand results?

"ms" stands for "milliseconds". It's referring to the average time taken to render a frame during the test. The 99th percentile figure means 99% of the frames took less than that amount of time to render. So, for example, for a given average ms. time, a higher 99th percentile figure means there was more variation between the highest and lowest amounts of time, so that there was more of a bottleneck somewhere. It would be more useful if they'd given the average FPS in the final results, but this still helps a bit.
 
Divide 1,000 by average frame time to get the average frames per second. The 99% figure is pretty useless for our purposes.
 
Thank you, I felt silly asking but didn't know, so I appreciate the answers. I'm going to try my first game soon, just been too busy to delve into a game yet.
 
iMac 27 in, late 2013
3.5 Ghz Core i7
16GB RAM
NVIDEA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB
Fullscreen mode

Quick combat enabled, quick movement enabled:
Average: 56.67 ms
99th Percentile: 87.375 ms

Quick combat disabled, quick movement enabled:
Average: 55.3 ms
99th Percentile: 94.59 ms

Quick combat disabled, quick movement disabled:
Average: 46.496 ms
99th Percentile: 73.365 ms

Quick combat enabled, quick movement disabled:
Average: 53.596 ms
99th Percentile: 87.282 ms
 
OK, so...Any hope for me?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Mid 2014)
2.5 GHz, i7
16 GB RAM, 1600 MHz, DDR3
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
 
OK, so...Any hope for me?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", Mid 2014)
2.5 GHz, i7
16 GB RAM, 1600 MHz, DDR3
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Pretty sure you'll be fine! RAM and CPU are enough, the videocard might give you some lower settings but will surely be better than mine.
 
Thanks!

Now for the other thousand dollar question: will Civ 6 make my CPU go into overdrive forcing the fan to start and stay on for the length of time I'm playing the game the way Civ 5 did?
 
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