Quote Originally Posted by VoltaAsura View Post
Although with the 570, you'll still get really good performance with FFXIV, but that's mostly because of that CPU. FFXIV isn't that heavy on the GPU, so you shouldn't have to worry about upgrading your video card for some time.
Disagree. The 570 is passable for 1920x1080 @ 60fps with all settings on, anything else requires a better GPU. I have the 760 which is like 2% better and it's fine.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

The only benefit you get from going from 570 to 660 or 760 is lower power/cooling requirements. The performance is otherwise an inconsequential difference.

FFXIV is GPU-heavy in that most iGPU and 100$/150$ GPU's are suffering, and if you don't get a constant 60fps in this game, you will have a hard time dodging AOE's, as the AOE's will lag somewhat. Crowded areas, no matter what GPU you have will always experience frame drops because it's a combination GPU, CPU and netcode that is responsible for that. Literately, too many objects try to pop-in at once, and the game makes poor decisions about what to cull due to too many moving objects (from your POV.) If you are farther away (eg Australia, Europe) then you're going to see netcode suffering.

Anything over the 5000 point on passmark is probably overkill for FFXIV. The 570/760 cards are around 250-300$ and the 960 is about 20% better for about 200-250$.