FFXIV 4K Gaming Question

[Doc_Seraph]

Aye kupo <3 4k at high frames on high settings can take a toll unless you have a card with a focus on 4k. 3080 is probably best for high rates at 4k (nvidia line)

kupo <3

that is not to say you can't game on a 3060 @ 4k you can but if you are experiencing frame rates that are subpar to your liking it is the card kupo <3 Guessing at 1080 you can just go gung ho with frame rates.

Also kupo <3 keep in mind the refresh rates on a tv vs. gaming monitor. That tv is 60hz so if you are used to playing on a 1080 that is higher you will notice a difference kupo <3

[Silverbane]

Aye kupo <3 4k at high frames on high settings can take a toll unless you have a card with a focus on 4k. 3080 is probably best for high rates at 4k (nvidia line)

For many people, they may not need a 3080 for 4K on FFXIV, a 3070 may be fine.
On the other hand, some people may benefit from a 3090, as explained below:

First, data points: I run a 3070 with a very old CPU (an i7-6700K) and the frame rate is limited by the 60Hz max rate of my 4k monitor. it looks very nice.

My spouse runs that same 3070 with that same CPU (we have matched systems) but on a Samsung CGR9 49" UWQHD (5120 x 1440) monitor with a 120Hz max rate. That setup gets 110+ Hz frame rates. That monitor (on which the game looks AMAZING BTW) only has 89% of the pixels that a 4K monitor has, so maybe this indicates that on a 4K monitor with no frame rate limit, you'd get 100+ Hz.

Is that enough? It depends.

100Hz looks substantially better than 60Hz: there is noticeably less "jerkiness" to movement, and it is easier to track/notice things while turning. Whether an even higher frame rate would be noticeably better depends a lot on the person.

Testing has shown that some people (military fighter pilots, for example) can benefit from frame rates as high as 300Hz, but not everyone has retinas/visual cortexes that are that fast.