Since I didn't see any actual A/B testing wrt DX11 vs DXVK I asked a friend to run the Dawntrail benchmark Max settings, 4k. He's running on a Ryzen 5 7600 CPU and the 9070 XT with default clocks on the card.

DX11

Score: 10808
Average Frame Rate: 75,61709
Minimum Frame Rate: 47
Performance: High

DXVK

Score: 21593
Average Frame Rate: 163,9759
Minimum Frame Rate: 49
Performance: Extremely High
That is an absolute stupid amount of performance uplift by changing to a 3rd party renderer and tells you something is absolutely ridiculously amiss here.

Despite the performance uplift I am reticent to buy the 9070 XT because of reports of stuttery performance regardless of the renderer in crowded areas as reported by this thread. Any update on this by anyone? Supposedly FreeSync causes stutters in windowed mode too so that's another cherry on top.

Anyone running the 9070 XT and Windows 11/DXVK seeing any improvement if they go to
System > Display > Graphics and set Optimisation for windowed games to "On" (should be by default I think?) and add/change FFXIV settings to set the optimisations "On" and set GPU preference to "High Performance"? Like so:


At this point it just seems to me I should shell the 100€ or a little more I see the price difference being between the cheapest 5070 Ti and 9070 XT models locally despite all the negative things happening around Nvidia to ensure my own sanity, as much as I hate to do it.