Benchmark question

No idea where to put this, but figured I would start here. I know I've been running the game pretty smoothly overall and been content with things, but then I saw the official benchmark for Endwalker. A lot of people were posting like 13-26k for score. I ran mine, only getting like 8-9k. But looking at specifications, my computer should far surpass many of theirs.

I'm using:

Windows 10 Pro
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
32GB Memory
2TB SSD

I mean, is the benchmark just broken? Could it be that something is screwy on my PC that isn't letting me get maximum performance?

Really kind of bothered and trying to figure this out. If it is something on my end I need to do, hoping people can help me figure it out. Also, if it's a sign that maybe something isn't working like it should be, that's also something I want to get taken care of since I just received this computer in April and it was build in March of this year.

Thanks!

Nvm. I don't know hot o delete this whole post, as don't see an option. I have no clue why the normal benchmark was so low. No matter what I did, those numbers didn't increase. But then I ran Maximum for the heck of it, to see how bad I'd be. But instead of worse numbers, mine ran AWESOME instead. So on Maximum, I scored 22,448. (Extremely High).

That seems weird and I can't comprehend it, but it's whatever. I'll shut up and be content. If a mod can remove this post, would be awesome. Otherwise...guess just let it die. Have fun everyone!

It does have major issues on fullscreen, fwiw. Mine was crap, until I ran it on borderless windowed as I do with the actual game. I just wanted to run it in "default" so as to compare with others. Changing to borderless windowed increased my score around 50%, also it seems the first run is a little bit lower than subsequent runs. I have no idea, fullscreen optimizations and stuff were off...

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