what was your benchmark compatibility score?

[Brianmj]

Wait how?! I just got a 970 cause it was 200$ cheaper ;-;

It's not a big deal. The card has 4GBs of ram. 3.5 of that is fast, the last .5 is slow. It shouldn't matter much for FF14 unless you're playing at an extremely high resolution. I have a 970, and the card handles the game great. My score was 11565.

The internet did kind of blow up on it. But for what it's worth, and for FF14, the card is great.

[mb52139]

16024 DX11 :X

[Bizzy]

DX9 Score



DX11 Score



Looks like I'll be fine.

Since I play using 1680X1050 Resolution here is my score for DX11

[Imoye]

How is this even remotely possible? People with a 760 setup are getting less.

Got 3770k + 7950 @ 1GHz and I'm getting 6355. Seems to be very inconsistent, and somewhat in favour of Nvidia.

If I downclock my card to 850MHz I get 5551, which should be more comparable to stock 660/670/760 setups.

[Kiara]

Hi All,

I always thought Yoshi P was touting that DX11 would result in *better* performance (and more bells & whistles / graphical enhancements) than DX9?

Or was I mistaken?

Ran the benchmark and my DX9 score is much higher than the DX11 score.

(Silly side question: Am I supposed to download DX11 separately or something?)

Thanks for the help!

[Zephyr-Umbra]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 18:13:17
Score: 9712
Average Frame Rate: 74.448
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 5.038 sec
Scene #2 17.363 sec
Scene #3 8.486 sec
Scene #4 6.334 sec
Scene #5 6.468 sec
Scene #6 4.352 sec
Total Loading Time 48.042 sec

DAT:s20150427181317.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.150316-1542)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
16333.156MB
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (VRAM 3072 MB) 8.17.0010.1280

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Official Website http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/
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Full Results
FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 9712 Extremely High
1920x1080 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV

A little disappointed since i have a top of the range r9 290X, saphire edition factory OC version.
But with the Nvidia logo on the benchmark itself i can only imagine they got more of a hands on than AMD did, hopefully AMD cards will get better with it over time.
Also bare in mind my drivers are quite out of date due to the version of windows im running, which wont allow me to update to the latest or windows 8.1 (Waiting for windows 10.)
And my CPU is not overclocked either.

[Shurrikhan]

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I'm also getting only a fourth of my DX9 score on DX11, using basically the same quality levels on each.

[Nekodar]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 20:02:38
Score: 10226
Average Frame Rate: 78.598
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.483 sec
Scene #2 5.251 sec
Scene #3 4.026 sec
Scene #4 3.753 sec
Scene #5 3.546 sec
Scene #6 1.780 sec
Total Loading Time 19.840 sec

DAT:s20150427200238.dat

Screen Size: 2560x1440
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

[Brianmj]

Hi All,

I always thought Yoshi P was touting that DX11 would result in *better* performance (and more bells & whistles / graphical enhancements) than DX9?

Or was I mistaken?

Ran the benchmark and my DX9 score is much higher than the DX11 score.

(Silly side question: Am I supposed to download DX11 separately or something?)

Thanks for the help!

Well my score shot up by 2000 when using the DX9 renderer. DX11 score is 11565. It's not out of line for the DX9 renderer to have better performance than the DX11 renderer. It's an older API, and drivers for it are mature. The DX11 features in the benchmark are really just "more bells & whistles", as you said. You don't have to download anything extra.

[LunaSnowfield]

That's at 1080 res

Okay this must be a **** joke

System expect :

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Evga GTX 980 SC
SSD Samsung PRO 850 256GB.
Asus Maximus Ranger VII
Drivers updated.

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score? meanwhile some people with a Celeron D and a GT 5200 are getting over 80 fps on 1080p...