The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[alecrast]

I'm content with my 3506 low with an asus g73jh, but my load time is irritating me. I just installed an intel 80gb ssd and load times are still ~25000. Anyone have any clue why this might be? (superfetch/indexing/defraging disabled, windows score of 7.7, trim enabled)

Load time is also directly impacted by processor speed.

[Cloud]

Got my new GTX 480.
I'm very happy with my upgrade!
Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz

High Score:
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Compared to my 2500 score with the ATI 4890, this is SO much better!
Just need to OC my CPU some more, 4Ghz should be good.
Might get into the 5000~ then.

[Marked]

Load time is also directly impacted by processor speed.

It seems like it should have gone up at least a little bit though. I was getting the same (or quicker) load times with my old 7200 rpm drive =\

[Kylewhataru]

Should I go with the 5850 or the 5870? Is the 5870 really worth it over the 5850? I won't be overclocking mind you, atleast not for awhile until I figure out what i'm doing. I'm also running dual monitors. Will the 5850 be able to run them np?

I was going to get the 5870 but was scared away by noise/heat levels, the reason I stopped buying super high end cards is because I don't like my room to turn into an oven.

A 5850 might only barely get you to 4000 (3700-3900 is more realistic) but even with 3700 on high it still looks extremely smooth so it's not something I'd worry about.

[alecrast]

It seems like it should have gone up at least a little bit though. I was getting the same (or quicker) load times with my old 7200 rpm drive =\

If the 7200 RPM drive was fast enough to make your processor the bottleneck, then that's why you don't see any difference. The benchmark's load time is not a good test of drive performance and doesn't give you a feel for how the game will actually play. Where you'll notice the difference in gameplay is when the system has to go fetch some model/texture/shader instruction that isn't currently loaded in memory. With a mechanical drive, you'll get a stutter. With an SSD, that stutter will be potentially unnoticeable.

If you want to benchmark your drive performance, then try crystal disk mark, hdtach, atto, or iometer.

[Wulfgang]

I was going to get the 5870 but was scared away by noise/heat levels, the reason I stopped buying super high end cards is because I don't like my room to turn into an oven.

A 5850 might only barely get you to 4000 (3700-3900 is more realistic) but even with 3700 on high it still looks extremely smooth so it's not something I'd worry about.

I have a 5870 and I can barely hear it in any application. I have Starcraft II mid-mission up right now at Ultra settings and FFXI and its the same. Given these aren't Metro 2033 in terms of GPU usage, but the point is I doubt you will get to a ridiculous decibel level in FFXIV.

If you go into CCC and manually turn the fan to 100% though, your case will start flying around the room.

[Gulkeeva]

yeah the 5870 fan left on "auto" really doesn't make much noise even when its near and or at 100% load... gets kinda hot though (think fan goes to like 40-60%?)

[Dracent]

It's strange, i see all these post about OC'ing and i never once did to my comp. But i easily scored over 4400. i7, ati 5870, 6gig ddr3 ram. 500 psu. normal fan cooling. my best is 4550 but i will post a shot of my next attempt.

[Wulfgang]

On high, OCing does shit as it becomes much more GPU dependent. My "high" score from 2.80 ghz to 4.01 ghz increased by about 150 and that's probably within a 95% confidence interval (meaning OCing did nothing). OCing my GPU by 50 ghz to 900 did make a statistically significant difference though.

[Gulkeeva]

It's strange, i see all these post about OC'ing and i never once did to my comp. But i easily scored over 4400. i7, ati 5870, 6gig ddr3 ram. 500 psu. normal fan cooling. my best is 4550 but i will post a shot of my next attempt.

with your setup approximately you get +100 score per +400mhz and + 100 score per 50mhz on the video card, its how I got to near 5000's


I still need to get a decent cpu fan sometime ;/

[shaddix]

On my system, [email protected] gtx460@880mhz, the benchmark gets better with gpu overclock, but the beta gets better with cpu overclock. My gpu will be sitting between 30-60% usage in the beta, but pegged at 100% in the benchmark. Bench says to upgrade video, game says to upgrade cpu. I'll wait to see what beta3 says before I decide.

[Hyan]

On my system, [email protected] gtx460@880mhz, the benchmark gets better with gpu overclock, but the beta gets better with cpu overclock. My gpu will be sitting between 30-60% usage in the beta, but pegged at 100% in the benchmark. Bench says to upgrade video, game says to upgrade cpu. I'll wait to see what beta3 says before I decide.

I wonder if the benchmark is just wrong or if the release client is optimized much further than the one we are testing now.

[Karinastar]

Core 2 Quad Q8200 @2.7 ghz (something locks up when I OC it more, I think it's the crappy memory in this thing)
Sapphire Radeon HD5850, stock settings
8gb PC800 DDR2 RAM @905mhz

3465 on high, I'm happy with it... don't think I can get much more out of this setup, I could OC the card but I'm pretty sure it's my processor that's holding me back at this point. Regardless, it sure beats the 1119 on low I got with my 9500gt I had in this thing before, beta was barely playable. XD

[levish]

It seems like it should have gone up at least a little bit though. I was getting the same (or quicker) load times with my old 7200 rpm drive =\

I'm guessing load time is a misnomer in this case, its more of a transitions/preparing textures where the activity might consist of 5-10% disk/load activity and 90% processing similar to say Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2's transitions.

The transitions (and this is where I believe the "load" score is originating from) are the only times when the benchmark comes close to pegging my processor with 60-90% load across the cores, othertimes it'll sit at 50-60% on one core and 20-30% on the other.

You can rest comfortably in the fact that at the very least the SSD will make your computer way snappier in general and you will very likely have fewer incidents of low fps attributed to disk seek.

[Amele]

I wonder if the benchmark is just wrong or if the release client is optimized much further than the one we are testing now.

The bench isn't dealing with positional data coming over a network (or sending positional data back to a network) or handling user input, or keeping a chat log, or displaying a UI (with all the attendant cpu cycles to calculate what the UI should show at the time.) or.. you get the picture.

it's more likely that the beta's client code is just horribly optimized (SOP for betas, you care about your server code more than the client code during closed beta... switches in open beta.) and is wasting lots of cpu cycles, rather than there being a marked difference between the graphics coding.

[Kalyna]

Does MSI Afterburner's voltage adjuster work with all video cards or only MSI's?

I have an EVGA GTX 460 coming up. Guru3D pushed it to 880, but I want to see if I can break 900 by sprinkling a bit of voltage.

[shaddix]

Does MSI Afterburner's voltage adjuster work with all video cards or only MSI's?

I have an EVGA GTX 460 coming up. Guru3D pushed it to 880, but I want to see if I can break 900 by sprinkling a bit of voltage.

it works with all of them

[Amele]

it works with all of them

if they support software volting at all, yeah. (my BFG 9800GX2 does not, for some reason.)

[Tonks]

So I got my 5850 today and both my scores obviously increased. ( I had a 5770 before.)

My 720 one went from 4111 to just 4150. So not much of a jump there.
But my 1080 one went from 2400ish to 3952. So that's cool. I sorta wanted to play full screen most of the time anyways, so that works for me.

[Ravan]

I personally think this game is going to run fine on most decent computers. I'm upgrading OFC to a 460 1GB and a 875k for full effect but if I couldn't I would be ok!


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