The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Celeras]

http://http.download.nvidia.com/down...VBenchmark.zip

Slipped in under the radar, was mentioned in passing in the hardware thread but I'm almost positive its brand fucking new. Offers both 1080p and 720p settings, though custom settings (AA and what not) are not available. Plays several rendered scenes found in the Alpha test. I will be making a leaderboard in this original post and keeping track of submitted scores, since people are always trying to compare systems and this will save endless page scrolling.

For a legitimate score to be added to the leaderboard, you must screenshot and attach the image with both your score and system specs viewable and mention if it is low or high.

Also, if you're using an ATI card, try to mention your cards specific model as it only says the series in the bench! (5850 vs 5870, if you don't tell me I'm going to guess)

SLI/CROSSFIRE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE FUNCTIONAL, YOU WILL ONLY BE USING A SINGLE GPU CORE IF YOU RUN WITH IT ENABLED RESULTING IN LOWER THAN EXPECTED SCORES ALL SLI/CROSSFIRE SETUPS AND CARDS LIKE THE GTX295, HD5970, HD4870x2, ETC

High Settings Leaderboard
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3927/highl.jpg

Low Settings Leaderboard (Disclaimer: Running at these settings is going to be largely effected by your CPU, making graphics card mostly irrelevant)
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4440/lowy.jpg

Last update: 6/17/10, currently accurate to post #425

Analysis: Even though it says The Way It's Meant to be Played stamped across the top, GPU manufacturer thankfully does not seem to be a factor. When comparing similiar GPU/CPU configurations (Saulin/Killerc, Tri/Kuro, etc), the scores are pretty identical and in-line with what you would expect from the varying clocks. CPU seems to be a larger than average(compared to other games/benches) factor at high settings, and completely dominates low settings to the point where GPU hardly matters at all.

How the benchmark relates to current beta performance

The following tests done on a system that scores 4500 High/5600 Low. Benchmarked with FRAPS logging the Min/Max/Avg framerates, in an instanced location to reduce performance discrepancy. Travel loops will be reproduced identically to the best of my ability and will not be overly complicated. More trials may be added in different locations at a later date.

Trial presets were determined by me, there is no 'minimum'/'maximum' option you can choose. Buffer Size was Resolution for all tests, Depth of Field being ignored.

'Minimum' -1280x800, Shadows Lowest, Multisampling Off, Ambient Occlusion Disabled, Texture Quality Low, Texture Filtering Lowest

http://www.razorbites.com/celeras/minimum.jpg

'Standard' -1920x1200, Shadows Standard, Multisampling 4x, Ambient Occlusion Disabled, Texture Quality Standard, Texture Filtering High

http://www.razorbites.com/celeras/standard.jpg

'Enthusiast' -1920x1200, Shadows Highest, Multisampling 16x, Ambient Occlusion Disabled, Texture Quality High, Texture Filtering Highest


http://www.razorbites.com/celeras/enthusiast.jpg

'Maximum' -1920x1200, Shadows Highest, Multisampling 16xQ, Ambient Occlusion Enabled, Texture Quality High, Texture Filtering Highest

http://www.razorbites.com/celeras/maxed.jpg

NDA is down, screenshots are allowed. Basically just walked a loop in the starter room on the varying settings with fraps benchmarking FPS.

FINAL FANTASY XIV ©2010 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. FINAL FANTASY is a registered trademark of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. All material used under license.

[Soap]

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6...ark201006u.jpg

[Hyan]

High settings

i3 530

Radeon HD 5770

4gb memory

Score: 2442
Load time: 20705ms

Low settings:

Score: 3260
Load time: 19478ms

Very smooth overall.

[Purrrfect]

TY for posting this cel. I'll have some lower midrange and low system scores tonight sometime.

[Arc07]

Sorry I tend to break tables.

Spoiler: show

720p
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4443/96791065.jpg

1080p (taskbar rapes bottom section)
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4492/75175527.jpg

Nintendo's E3 sucked.

[Celeras]

Not necessary for CPU/GPUZ Soap, I just meant don't crop out the score only. The benchmarks system spec is perfectly acceptable, can just mention the specific model~

Also, try to post if you ran on low or high since it doesn't really say. I'm gonna run now.

[Soap]

Not necessary for CPU/GPUZ Soap, I just meant don't crop out the score only. The benchmarks system spec is perfectly acceptable~

Also, try to post if you ran on low or high since it doesn't really say. I'm gonna run now.

Oh sorry, It was on High, 1080p settings.

[Hyan]

Also holy shit I love these character graphics. It's just gorgeous, omfg..

[Egon]

It keeps crashing for me, on 1080 and 720

[euph]

low res: Score = 2763

Q6600 2.4
2g ram
9800 GT Gforce 1g

sorry i didnt have my specs in before lmao

[Purrrfect]

low res: Score = 2763

At least some base system specs would be helpful for people reading this thread to get an idea of various performance levels.

[Celeras]

Won't be adding to leaderboards without the screenshot, if you want to post without one feel free.

High:
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8...mark201006.jpg

Low:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8...mark201006.jpg

Not much difference, my old CPU is probably bottlenecking the lower resolution. Making initial leaderboard now, will update in a minute.

[Soap]

My low settings bench score is 7179. Which confuses me because although Arcknight and I have almost the same GPU, our low settings scores are way different.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/292/720pbench.jpg

[Snowknight26]

i7 920 @ 4GHz
4870 @ Stock
Low - High

Q6600 @ 3.3GHz
4850 @ 630/1050MHz
Low - High

[Gokulo]

"Almost", plus 2 GPUs (nvm actually) and we don't know what ram you guys have.

[Celeras]

At low settings, scores are going to mostly determined by the CPU because of the low resolution. And yours is the best you can get.

5850 Crossfire right Soap?

[Arc07]

980x > 930

[Soap]

At low settings, scores are going to mostly determined by the CPU because of the low resolution. And yours is the best you can get.

5850 Crossfire right Soap?

No its just 1 5850, it says two because I have 2 displays.

[Freelancer]

The program can't run because d3dx9_41.dll is missing from your computer. try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.


No idea what to do here, anybody came across this problem?

[vrumpt]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...FFXIVbench.jpg

that was my score on low

on high my score was 1036.