nvidia GTS250 on ffxiv

[fishstix]

Has anyone benchmarked this card on ffxiv yet? My friend is out shopping for a new card, trying to help him out. I know the game isn't dependent solely on a video card, but just wanted to give him a ballpark estimate of what to expect.

[Mikelee0351]

Closest I can get is that I have a gtx 260 and I got about 2500 on high on the benchmark

[levish]

Anandtech places it ahead of a 4850 but behind a 4870 (for the GTS 250 1GB model 738mhz core clock and 1800ish mhz ram clock), I'm going to guess and say its probably slightly faster than a 5770 in DX9 but slower than a 5830 or 5850 in terms of todays cards.

[Alvein]

Just make sure you're backing it up with a decent CPU. FFXIV needs a dual core CPU at minimum. I upgraded to a GTS250, but only to find I was bottlenecked by my CPU, a single core AMD Athlon 3500+, so I just ended up taking the card back because I don't have the money/patience to upgrade my CPU right now.

[Shaard]

I got about 4000 on low (and around 2200 on high) with a GTS 250 and an i5 750, if that helps.

[fishstix]

thanks for the replies, but he decided to save up for a whole new system instead