The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Amele]

A few facts I learnt today from an informed source:

For gaming, you get much more bang for your buck with the dual-core i5s than you do with the quad core i7s. That is assuming that FFXIV doesn't have some wondrous concurrency built in.

The top of the line i5s are the 600 series, not the 700 series. The 700 series are the older ones.

depends on how you define top of the line. the 600s are newer and have hyperthreading enabled (For 4 logical cores, 2 true cores) but only a 4MB L3 cache. they also put integrated video onchip, which, while a nice feature, is totally gratuitous for most gamers since they'll have a discrete card. (The onboard video is HTPC quality only, not gaming.)

the i5 600s also have higher clock speeds, but clock isn't everything - especially when you're looking at 4 real cores vs 4 logical cores and the i5-750s overclock as well as they do.


between the two I'd still recommend an i5 750 (which is a quad core) to any gamer, but the 600s are certainly worthy chips for other users. the i5 750 is still a good budget choice for someone looking for quad core gaming parts.

[Katlan]

That's probably fine, there aren't many choices for nVidia chipsets on AMD boards. I just got a Gigabyte 890FX UD5 and plan to use the SLI patch if I ever upgrade tand require the functionality.

They patched in SLI functionality today? O.o

[Celeras]

They patched in SLI functionality today? O.o

The patch was developed years ago.

[Wulfgang]

The patch was developed years ago.

Probably should have gone with the SLI 460s then. I knew you could change some files in the bench folder to make it utilize both GPUs, but didn't want to spend the $$$ for another card right away unless I knew it would work with the final game. Could snag another 5870 but I really doubt it's necessary for smooth fps at high settings on FFXIV judging by the bench score table at the start.

[Jojimbo]

Just done a very quick test of CF vs Single card.

Settings: 1920x1080, MSx2, Window Buffer, AO on, DoF off.

Single card - 15 FPS (In town, standing on a bridge, moved around a bit)

CF - 26 FPS (same place)

Performce increase is similar to the increase I saw in Benchmark when I used CF hack.

[Wulfgang]

What ATI card are you crossfiring?

[Questionable]

Probably should have gone with the SLI 460s then. I knew you could change some files in the bench folder to make it utilize both GPUs, but didn't want to spend the $$$ for another card right away unless I knew it would work with the final game. Could snag another 5870 but I really doubt it's necessary for smooth fps at high settings on FFXIV judging by the bench score table at the start.

Man, money burning in your pocket, CF2 5870 lol?

I can't even think of getting 1 5870...

[Izzy]

30FPS non stop today, even in Limsa Lominsa. This little update makes me happy <3

[Jojimbo]

I am using 2x HD 5770, i7 920(@3.8), 6 GB RAM. Card(s) at 99% usage on both tests.

And yeah ^ very smooth in LL at last.

[Celeras]

Must be just SLI that's not working. I tried my dual 8800s just to see and it wasn't functional.

[Aveudant]

Ok so firstly I had all sorts of issues with running this. I bought a brand new laptop for this, an Alienware M17x, Win7 64 bit, 6 GB Ram, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870. Here's the errors I got and how I eventually solved it.

So my first file I had trouble with when trying to run the FFXIVBenchmark exe was something like d3dx9_41.dll. This is as mentioned often before is to update, or install Directx, at least version 9.

Of course that didn't fix all the issues. The next file that had issues was atiumdag.dll. This is part of the ATI driver. I downloaded the most up to date drivers from both Alienware/Dell and ATI. They didn't help. I did some more sniffing around and noticed the atiumdag.dll file was old and not dated the same as some of the other files.

Anyway to cut a long story short, I did an uninstall of the Ati software, then I uninstalled the device from Device Manager. After restarting I reinstalled the latest drivers. Yay that worked. Good luck, this was really annoying but I think this will work for you.

By the way, my laptop scored 3500.

[BlackheartX]

Has anyone seen anything beneficial from 10.7 yet? All this update did for me is raise my GPU temps for no reason.

[Wulfgang]

Man, money burning in your pocket, CF2 5870 lol?

I can't even think of getting 1 5870...

lol I work like 85 hours a week, investment banking ftl. When I do have time to play, I'd like to do it in style :D

[Jojimbo]

Has anyone seen anything beneficial from 10.7 yet? All this update did for me is raise my GPU temps for no reason.

Same, I think it's because they had to up the idle clocks (from 147/300 to 400/1200, or w/e memory is OCed to, ie 1250 for me).

Apparently there has been some performance boosts with it, + all the added features (and hopefully no driver crashing on desktop)

[Kitoro]

I can't yet post links here, so I will when I gain the ability. -_- I'm sure someone will find my info useful, as there really aren't many AMD processors around here.

Just got my Dell Studio XPS 7100 in the mail yesterday, and just finished putting it through its paces with the benchmark.

It's a Dell, so needless to say, my entire system is running stock.

Specs:
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64Bit
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs
1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

Low: 4352

High: 4179

Very pleased with the results; right at what I hoped and anticipated for. The wait was only made harder after this! @_@

Wow, every time I run it now, the score increases little by little with no alterations of any sort.. updating my peak scores as they come.

[Katlan]

so they enabled CF but not SLI in the game [yet]?

edit: guess they didn't add support yet, for either, they just fixed it so the game doesnt bug out when you have CF enabled or something

[Cooleko]

SE did just tweet that ati stepped into the playing field. it is very possible they helped them make the adjustment.

I am building my wife a PC atm. It is uncomplete as i need a WC and MB still, but I am gonna take the 2xSLI GTX480 hydro copper FTW and put them in my current rig to see the benchmark. I hope I get her PC OC'ed and running in time to take over the ff14benchmarks before the game is out.

[Izzy]

SE did just tweet that ati stepped into the playing field. it is very possible they helped them make the adjustment.

Can you link to this. I can't find it on the FF_XIV_EN twitter.

[Hyan]

It was Tanaka's tweet.

[Celeras]

Has anyone seen anything beneficial from 10.7 yet? All this update did for me is raise my GPU temps for no reason.

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=19793&page=3

ATI drivers typically don't do jack shit.