If their memory is low speed / high latency it can hurt a lot since 14 is pretty latency/cpu bound. Could also have tons of crap open or weird "my settings".
Printable View
You are correct, it seems setting max FPS limit in Nvidia control panel messes up the benchmark (mine was limited to 120 FPS due to monitor cap but benchmark was limited to 240 FPS)
updated score with limiter turned off.
https://i.imgur.com/F01ociDl.png
I am guessing the same feature on AMD GPUs will do the same thing too, for benchmark purposes, people should turn anything like this off just for it.
1080p, maximum settings.
The benchmark clearly shows more CPU bound situations and we still cannot select the "show minimum people and objects" setting that works wonders and let me get constant 60fps on my PC.
If you want 1080p@60fps at maximum settings, an RTX2060 is STILL way more than enough.
Full benchmark video: https://youtu.be/yg37_PZInVY
Same PC since Shadowbringers (benchmark video: https://youtu.be/Jqz5HzE2NYg)
https://i.imgur.com/y3Dh4qq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/y3Dh4qq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uBw1KNm.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uBw1KNm.jpg
10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build
Literally all Maximum does is disable Occlusion Culling and there's no reason to disable it.
Edit - I will rerun the benchmarks as apparently it does change 3 other settings-
Maximum unchecks 'Use low detail models on shadows'
'Screen Space Ambient Occlusion' switches to 'HBAO+: Quality'
Anisotropic Filtering switches to 16x (shouldn't matter at all performance=wise)
Not bad for a G7 laptop that's probably a few years old.
*Edited after running it off my SSD instead of the crappy HDD*
FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Benchmark
Tested on: 7/13/2021 3:43:43
Score: 14027
Average Frame Rate: 103.0707
Minimum Frame Rate: 46
Performance: Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.
Total Loading Time 16.735 sec
System
Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (ver.10.0.19043 Build 19043)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
16196.770MB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060(VRAM 5980 MB)
https://i.imgur.com/cXgc8LH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cXgc8LH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/S4DWcYt.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/S4DWcYt.jpeg
Barely any difference from High.
10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build
Nvidia quit making SLI profiles ages ago and has since completely abandoned SLI itself, you're only using 1 GPU. You're also likely suffering from microstutter if you're somehow using an ancient SLI profile which shouldn't still work.
You should update Windows 10
Is your CPU overclocked ?