FFXIV ARR Benchmark Scores: Now with Character Creation

[Dakin]

GTX 760 (EVGA Overclocked) = 5529 on max settings, 1920x1200. I didn't think to do a 1080p run and will do that in the morning.

This is coming from a 5850 that got 3943 on the same settings. With the 5850, the CPU (i7 860) sat at around 20% (spiking sometimes to 40%). With the 760, the CPU sits between 40-60%, sometimes spiking to 80%. I was planning to do a CPU upgrade to Haswell later this year.

EVGA GTX 760 (non SC) overclocked to 1100MHz core (1153 boost) = 5415 Maximum settings 1920x1080.

CPU is a bit meh, Phenom ii x6 1055T @ 3.2. This is about a 1000 point increase from my old GTX 480.

I love everything about this card. I know I have more room to OC but have not had time to mess with it that much yet. Stays extremely cool and as far as all the complaints about EVGA's ACX cooling being loud, it's barely audible even at 80% fan speed. A considerable gain at $250.

[Jamison]

GTX 760 (EVGA Overclocked) = 5529 on max settings, 1920x1200. I didn't think to do a 1080p run and will do that in the morning.

This is coming from a 5850 that got 3943 on the same settings. With the 5850, the CPU (i7 860) sat at around 20% (spiking sometimes to 40%). With the 760, the CPU sits between 40-60%, sometimes spiking to 80%. I was planning to do a CPU upgrade to Haswell later this year.

Finally got to doing a 1080 benchmark with the gtx 760. Scored 5856 on max settings. Old CPU is probably keeping that number lower that it could be, and I could probably push some additional overclock on the card.

[Resin]

Finally got to doing a 1080 benchmark with the gtx 760. Scored 5856 on max settings. Old CPU is probably keeping that number lower that it could be, and I could probably push some additional overclock on the card.

For sure, your CPU is holding you back. Upgrade that and you'll see your 1080p benchmark jump way up.

[Resin]

Finally found my max stable overclock on my GTX 660 Ti and broke 8k! This'll have to tide me over until I can convince myself to buy a GTX 780.

[Takiwaki]

Anyone that has windows 8 and is willing to try 8.1 preview, nvdia released a new driver for it that basically upped my score by about 500 points. Was getting around 9500 with my defaulted gtx780 SC (non acx) now im pushing 10k at default settings.

Drivers: 326.01

[Izzy]

I'm having this retarded issue with my 770 where the driver will randomly crash while I'm sitting at the desktop doing nothing or while the monitors are off in screensaver mode. It's pissing me off and I can't get any help fixing this damn thing.

[Jamison]

I'm having this retarded issue with my 770 where the driver will randomly crash while I'm sitting at the desktop doing nothing or while the monitors are off in screensaver mode. It's pissing me off and I can't get any help fixing this damn thing.

I've had this with the 760 as well, on the latest drivers from the website.

[ArchDizzle]

Was planning on upgrading my GPU to a 780 and trying out nvidia for the first time but all the driver issues I keep hearing from you guys make me think I'll just go with a 7970. I've always used amd cards and never had an issue with grabbing the newest beta drivers from them, is this usual for Nvidia drivers?

[Jamison]

I'm only newly on nvidia myself for the first time in ages. From what I've read though this is rather unusual, and nvidia is usually considered to have equal or better drivers than AMD. (Not starting a flame war, it's nothing massive, both companies are pretty solid but nvidia had a slight edge.)

[ArchDizzle]

If thats the case I can wait a little while til they get it worked out my 7870 does just fine atm. What seems to be the best drivers to go with atm?

[Adajer]

This is not common from Nvidia. I would recommend staying away from any 320.xx drivers but people with 700 series have no choice. The 320.49 has caused my first and only BSOD on my system.

Last year they were churning out new drivers 3-5+ times a month. Since 2013 there have been 11 or so new driver updates.

[Takiwaki]

I used to be amd all the way, I am very happy about what the 780 has been pushing. previously had a 7970, the 780 blows it away. No issues with drivers atm, but I am running with windows 8.1 preview drivers.

[Meyor]

Just got a EVGA 760 4gb, really happy with the upgrade over the 3+ year old 5850 I have been using. I messed with the settings a little bit, didn't really look into how to push the card but I think it will work just fine.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:7/10/2013 11:24:56 PM
Score:8975
Average Framerate:75.986
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Enabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Disabled
-Grass Quality : Normal
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : Mid: 1024 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : Low
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : Low
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Low
-Glare : Low
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
16295.523MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760(VRAM 4095 MB) 9.18.0013.2049

[Adajer]

Maximum Settings or it doesn't count.

[Meyor]

Switched to maximum/full screen, did not change anything else.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:7/11/2013 7:09:29 AM
Score:6230
Average Framerate:51.714
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
16295.523MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760(VRAM 4095 MB) 9.18.0013.2049

[Spieler]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:7/11/2013 7:38:01 PM
Score:7074
Average Framerate:58.482
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
8159.141MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 4095 MB) 9.18.0013.2049

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

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[Tsakiki]

Here's another GTX 760 score. I haven't changed any of the out-of-the-box settings yet, very pleased with the improvement over my old computer so far though.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:7/10/2013 10:42:15 PM
Score:6917
Average Framerate:57.552
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz
8112.359MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.2018

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

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[Jamison]

For my own self-interest, since this is the card I have, I'll try to keep a semi-accurate list of scores for the 760.

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Jamison -- EVGA Overclocked (@1072)
Score: 5529 [i7-860] (@1920x1200)

Jamison -- EVGA Overclocked (@1072)
Score: 5856 [i7-860] (@1080p)

Meyor -- EVGA 4GB
Score: 6230 [i5-2500K]

Tsakiki -- EVGA
Score: 6917 [i5-4670]

[Asai]

Does SLI affect this benchmark at all? Dual 780's I can't break 9200.

[Adajer]

It doesn't support SLI yet.

That said. I just ran it on my 780 and only got an 8300 with a 3770k at stock.
I noticed my GPU usage never went past 70%. Am I bottlenecking my 780? I didn't think a 3770k would bottleneck it, but that must be the case.