The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Kryssan]

I tried the DLL hack method - in combination with the ATI Crossfire Extension program to force crossfire. Scores improved somewhat, but I'm still not pulling crazy numbers like 10k. Perhaps there are multiple DLL hacks? I'm not sure, had to get this one from a JP site with Google Translate.

[Nartosar]

I might be missing the point, but is there any value to tweaking a benchmark to get scores if you expect that the full release will work with your card?

[Shaard]

Don't know if people are still interested in these...

http://web.et-caetera.org/forums/bench_ffxiv.jpg

Score in low mode: 3997
i5 750 @ 2,67 GHz
GTS 250 with a slightly overclocked memory (2300 MHz)
4 Go G.Skill RipJaws 1600 CL9
Asus P7P55D-E mobo

Benchmark ran very smoothly.

Strangely enough, overclocking the CPU to 3.8 GHz didn't change the result much (went up by maybe 200), but then I am really really new to overclocking so I must have done something wrong.

[Charismatic]

(1280x720):


5870
(was requested, so here it is.)
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2820/lowsettings.png

[Jojimbo]

http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=241445 is the link that has the modded d3d9.dll in it. The intel logo is because he's using one DLed from intel rather than nvidia (I found the same one).

It works by making the benchmark run in fullscreen, but my XFire is basically broken and doesn't work on several games anyway so I can't really test it (CF works in furmak 1440x900 windowed though ;; ). And yes, Random option means your race changes whenever the screen blanks out, still works if you have other race options selected though.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2820/lowsettings.png

We have about the same set up except I have the AMD version, how the fuck do you get 2k more than me? O_o

Well from what I can see anyway... Unless you're running sli?

[Gulkeeva]

We have about the same set up except I have the AMD version, how the fuck do you get 2k more than me? O_o

Well from what I can see anyway... Unless you're running sli?

5870 -----> 5850 by alot
also intel cpu's have shown to be alot better then amd (for the game anyway)

[BlackheartX]

5870x2? -----> 5850 by alot
also intel cpu's have shown to be alot better then amd (for the game anyway)

If so yeah. If not, a 5850 that's a reference card will smoke a reference 5870 on overclocking.

[Gulkeeva]

on benchmarks 5850 is almost 1/2 the power of a 5870... its pretty big difference ;/

[Deathgazer]

Low on a single GTX 260. No overclocking or anything fancy.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3485/benchm.png

[BlackheartX]

on benchmarks 5850 is almost 1/2 the power of a 5870... its pretty big difference ;/

Whoops i am blind thought you said 5780. However I bet I can beat 5870 card bench on this forum that's OCed. (but your right 5870 is better than 5850 but the performance gap isn't that big)

[Gulkeeva]

5850
# Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
# Processing power (single precision): 2.09 TeraFLOPS
# Processing power (double precision): 418 GigaFLOPS
# Polygon throughput: 725M polygons/sec
# Data fetch rate (32-bit): 209 billion fetches/sec
# Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 52.2 Gigatexels/sec
# Pixel fill rate: 23.2 Gigapixels/sec
# Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 92.8 Gigasamples/sec
# Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
# Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
# Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec

5870
# Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
# Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
# Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
# Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
# Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
# Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
# Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
# Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
# Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
# Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
# Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec

kinda big differences, and googling the fps differences between them is... massive anywhere from 25-50% faster on most anything you can find

[Yoli]

Edit: Deleted. I think I figured out what makes the 5970 special is that you can easily tinker/overclock it if you have the power supply. Otherwise it sounds like you'd do about as well just running two 5870's together.

[BlackheartX]

5850
# Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
# Processing power (single precision): 2.09 TeraFLOPS
# Processing power (double precision): 418 GigaFLOPS
# Polygon throughput: 725M polygons/sec
# Data fetch rate (32-bit): 209 billion fetches/sec
# Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 52.2 Gigatexels/sec
# Pixel fill rate: 23.2 Gigapixels/sec
# Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 92.8 Gigasamples/sec
# Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
# Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
# Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec

5870
# Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
# Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
# Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
# Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
# Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
# Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
# Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
# Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
# Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
# Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
# Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec

kinda big differences, and googling the fps differences between them is... massive anywhere from 25-50% faster on most anything you can find

I could be wrong I follow xtreme systems and overclock.net most of their benches show about 5-13 fps difference with both OCed.

[Celeras]

Edit: Deleted. I think I figured out what makes the 5970 special is that you can easily tinker/overclock it if you have the power supply. Otherwise it sounds like you'd do about as well just running two 5870's together.

It's two underclocked 5870s, there's nothing special about it.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5818/usage.jpg

Little disappointed in CPU usage with new processor. Had a better spread with my quad.. guess it's not optimized for more than 4 cores yet. Gonna try disabling 2/6 cores and running again to see how much the score changes.

Will post changes a bit later, still optimizing the new hardware and want to flash my bios.

[Eyedea-Seraph]

It's two underclocked 5870s, there's nothing special about it.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5818/usage.jpg

Little disappointed in CPU usage with new processor. Had a better spread with my quad.. guess it's not optimized for more than 4 cores yet. Gonna try disabling 2/6 cores and running again to see how much the score changes.

Will post changes a bit later, still optimizing the new hardware and want to flash my bios.

How did you score overall on the bench Cel? with the 1055T@4ghz and teh gtx470

[brand]

I though the T on the model number of Thubans was to specificy that there is a Turbo mode. From what I remember reading, it's supposed to shut 3 cores down if it detects not more than 3 cores are being used, allowing it to eat more power and internally overclocking the 3 active cores. The review I read was using the ATI overclocking tools to monitor the speeds. Have you tried using those?

[Celeras]

I though the T on the model number of Thubans was to specificy that there is a Turbo mode. From what I remember reading, it's supposed to shut 3 cores down if it detects not more than 3 cores are being used, allowing it to eat more power and internally overclocking the 3 active cores. The review I read was using the ATI overclocking tools to monitor the speeds. Have you tried using those?

Not made for overclocking, or gaming for that matter. The cores have to be idle for it to kick in and that will never happen in anything except in extremely old/unoptimized programs. I do have SOME usage on the 6 cores.. so that's not a factor here.

Also, when it comes to high overclocks you're going to want this disabled. I'm doing 4ghz at 1.4V which is actually pretty low. And even though turbo will underclock 3 cores to shift power to the 3 active cores (would make me like 4.6ghz or so) it still requires more voltage. When you already overclock and change the voltage manually, turbo on top of it can be potentially dangerous.

Its a nice feature for stock or mild overclocks, but I couldn't use it as is. If I wanted to I could maybe lower my clock/volts and THEN enable turbo and end up with 3 overclocked cores above 4.0.. but that wouldn't help with this bench. And to be honest, since my voltage is only 1.4 and I'm under water I could probably hit 4.4ghz or so stable, without turbo using all 6 cores. I just don't care to go that high.

@Eyedea ill post them later in the day when I'm done reflashing bios etc, I'm running f1 out of the box with my new board right now. 890FX UD5 if wondering, I want to flash F3.

[Amras]

@celeras: I'm going to build me a new system soonso far I cant decide wether to get me AMD 1055 or an Intel i7.
Can't wait to see your score because I couldn't find any AMD 1055 scores so far.

[Celeras]

@celeras: I'm going to build me a new system soonso far I cant decide wether to get me AMD 1055 or an Intel i7.
Can't wait to see your score because I couldn't find any AMD 1055 scores so far.

Hope you've done more homework outside of this benchmark I wrote something a few pages back about my thought process for the same decision.

Anyways done:

http://razorbites.com/celeras/ffxivcomparison.jpg

Right where I should be really. Squeaked out Tri with his i7 on High, only below Soap as far as tier2 graphics cards are concerned(5850/470, tier 1 being 5870/480). On low Tri repays the favor and Kuro is also ahead, with Soap blowing the rest of Tier2 away with his $1000 lovechild.