Heavensward Benchmark Scores

[Adajer]

970 can hold me over, just probably not max framerate with congestion.

[Mrbeansman]

Dang the changes have been enough to drop me outta Extremely High.

[Issom]

My First time posting so cant link image yet. Im an running two Titan X in Sli on Acer 1440p Gsync monitor.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 6/18/2015 5:49:29 PM
Score: 15610
Average Frame Rate: 125.105
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 2560x1440
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9600.winblue_r9.150322-1500)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
16319.672MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (VRAM 3072 MB) 9.18.0013.5306
DAT:s20150618174929.dat

[aldo]

At 2560x1600 with a 970 I got around ~5500.

With a 980ti I am at around 11000. I'm good for now until I get a 4k monitor but it's a nice update. (Anyone want a used 970strix? )

[Adajer]

Got my MSI 980 ti Gaming today




A little leery about the card or drivers. When I first tried to run benchmark, the frequency was weird. So I downloaded the msi app and turned it to OC mode and it worked fine. But when I tried to run the benchmark in Fullscreen 1080p. It kept windowing in and out til it would just crash. So I dont have any 1080p scores for it.

[Captain Redbeard]

I'm a returning FFXIV player, I used to play with 2 x GTX460's in SLi, but I upgraded to a GTX970 now and am pretty happy with it.

But I scored 9872 on Max at 1920x1080 with an Asus Strix GTX 970 DC2OC (not yet OC'd), a bit low imo. Guess my AMD CPU is bottlenecking.
Looking at these scores I wish I had gone with Intel when I built my PC, but now I'm stuck with an AMD-FX6300 and a lower benchmark score...

If I could get a new CPU, which not too expensive Intel CPU should I get for a noticeably higher score without bottlenecking?
Any advice?
Not sure if i'm going to make the change though, all games I've played so far run great already on highest settings, I'm not sure if I want to pay for a new CPU and Mobo again while everything already runs as good as it does. Maybe in a few years...

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 11/07/2015 07:44:55
Score: 9872
Average Frame Rate: 78.897
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.463 sec
Scene #2 6.553 sec
Scene #3 5.754 sec
Scene #4 5.136 sec
Scene #5 4.813 sec
Scene #6 1.901 sec
Total Loading Time 25.621 sec

DAT:s20150711074455.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bits (6.2, build 9200) (9600.winblue_r9.150322-1500)
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
16338.906MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3072 MB) 10.18.0013.5330

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

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[Kaisha]

Any advice?

You're getting an average fps of 78 in a stress-test application on max settings. You're fine.

[LinktheDeme]

I'm a returning FFXIV player, I used to play with 2 x GTX460's in SLi, but I upgraded to a GTX970 now and am pretty happy with it.

But I scored 9872 on Max at 1920x1080 with an Asus Strix GTX 970 DC2OC (not yet OC'd), a bit low imo. Guess my AMD CPU is bottlenecking.
Looking at these scores I wish I had gone with Intel when I built my PC, but now I'm stuck with an AMD-FX6300 and a lower benchmark score...

If I could get a new CPU, which not too expensive Intel CPU should I get for a noticeably higher score without bottlenecking?
Any advice?
Not sure if i'm going to make the change though, all games I've played so far run great already on highest settings, I'm not sure if I want to pay for a new CPU and Mobo again while everything already runs as good as it does. Maybe in a few years...

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 11/07/2015 07:44:55
Score: 9872
Average Frame Rate: 78.897
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.463 sec
Scene #2 6.553 sec
Scene #3 5.754 sec
Scene #4 5.136 sec
Scene #5 4.813 sec
Scene #6 1.901 sec
Total Loading Time 25.621 sec

DAT:s20150711074455.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bits (6.2, build 9200) (9600.winblue_r9.150322-1500)
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
16338.906MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3072 MB) 10.18.0013.5330

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Official Website
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Score: 9872 Extremely High
1920x1080 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
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Just hold out until Intels next chipset, It'll be DDR4 iirc which is going to change the standard RAM most Mobo's use. At least that is what I would do.

[StoneyBud]

Hi I was curious ignore cost cause I got lucky won poker tournament and have some cash to burn. I have a GTX 770 2gb acx, MSI 970a-g43 board, FX 6350 not OC, 2 x 8 GB G Skill Ripjaws, thermaltake Toughpower 850w80 plus gold. I hit 8270 on heavenward bench I have an extra board a msi z87-gd65 gaming and was curious if I pop that w a 4690k OC @ 4.2 ghz (Hyper 212 Evo) w my setup will I see score\graphics performance increase? I keep hearing Intel cpus are much better w mid to high range cpus I am upgrading GPU at end of month to gtx 980ti so never mind that. Thanks in advance for the help.

[Buffy]

Yes, that chip is an upgrade and you will see a performance boost.

[vargis14]

I scored 15461 with a 5 yr old 2600k at 4644mhz and no HT 16gb of ddr3 1600 at 9,9,9,24 1t in 2x8gb sticks with 2 EVGA GTX 770 4gb classified cards running in SLI at constant 1280 core boost speeds with 111% power setting and memory set to +416 offset. Not bad for the old girl After 5 years I just tried disabling HT last night and going to see if it make much of a difference. I only need 60fps since i am gaming on a 3440-1440res 21/9 LG 34UM95 monitor.
I recommend a 21/9 monitor for everyone they are awesome and very immersive.. I know it make me have to move my mouse to pan around and look much less when I am scanning a treeline in War Thunder Ground forces for a tank hiding in the treeline Very useful in racing and flying games also those extra 440 lines of vertical resolution on each side of the screen compared to a 27" 2560-1440 panel. The screen is the same height as a 27" 2560/1440p panel and i would love a couple LG IPS 27" 1440p panels for my side view mirrors but I cannot afford them right now+ I would have to purchase 2 adjustable monitor holding arms along with a couple 980TI's for all those pixels I would have to push. I am lucky I have the 4gb 770's or i would be bumming in some games since 3440-1440 uses alot of vram with a lot of AA and ultra textures etc. I think it is better than a 4k panel Unless that 4k panel is 40" in size and I could make custom desktop resolutions like 3840-1440 and have black bars at top and bottom of the screen for gaming purposes Might even be able to do 3840-1080 and have a 32/9 super ultra wide gaming exp. but not sure if you can do it since I do not have a 4k panel and i have not found much googling custom desktop resolution with no scaling.

[Katlan]

new posters keep getting more and more retarded