what was your benchmark compatibility score?

[Imoye]

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Also bare in mind my drivers are quite out of date due to the version of windows im running, which wont allow me to update to the latest or windows 8.1 (Waiting for windows 10.)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.

This certainly seems to be the case. People with comparable Nvidia cards are getting better scores.

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?

Idk, the benchmark seems unreliable, or someone's cheating uknowingly or knowingly for all I know. My friend with a 770 got a 8k score, so you should be above that.

[Mimiface]

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.

Seems to be in favor of Nvidia indeed. Probably optimized better for it

[Mimiface]

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...

From what I seen from other 980 users, you should be getting 12000+ easy. Yours is the lowest one I've seen by far

[Bloody]

I did a test this morning on DX9 maximum 1280 results for an 8k score, then found the resolution setting and changed it to 1600 for the DX11 test on maximum and got a 5600ish. Nvidia GTX 750 Ti. I'll retest DX9 at 1600 when I get home from work.

[Ditto]

GPU: GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition
CPU: AMD FX-8350 8 core, 4.0GHz

The details:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 1:31:37 PM
Score: 9913
Average Frame Rate: 80.626
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.595 sec
Scene #2 6.573 sec
Scene #3 5.652 sec
Scene #4 4.837 sec
Scene #5 4.594 sec
Scene #6 1.877 sec
Total Loading Time 25.132 sec

Screen Size: 1920x1080
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

System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.150316-1654)
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
8141.500MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3072 MB) 9.18.0013.4788

[VTanner]

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...

To me the first thing that look very odd with your result is the graph. Just go take a look at anyone else here and you should be able to notice that they sort of go up and down "normally" for lack of a better word. Yours on the other-hand is just straight up top or bottom, and to me instantly looks like major stuttering or the GPU is being throttled (and in turn reducing it's speed) then going full bought and then back to nothing. I wouldn't say this is an issue with the benchmark being unreliable more that something seems off with your setup either in temps/power or drivers. Either way you have a bad score for a 980 (good PC specs) and a very strange performance graph.

Oh please don't take this a negative post it's just with what your saying and what shown it looks like somethings just not right.

[Teprague]

[Nekodar]

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...

Looks a bit low... But you're using custom settings so can't really compare properly.
How much RAM? RAM speed?

You might want to check your GPU temperatures while running this as well. Graph indicates lots of throttling which could mean that the GPU runs too hot.
Could try to downclock to stock settings as you have a factory OC card and the OC might not be stable with drivers newer than it was designed for.

[AkashiXI]

I'm honestly very surprised I managed to get this high of a number, compared to what the 970 users are getting. This is with a very outdated driver too (2013 driver build)


Hopefully this'll encourage other 700 builds not to immediately upgrade... pretty content with this tbh.

Other info:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 2:11:47 PM
Score: 8145
Average Frame Rate: 63.289
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.454 sec
Scene #2 10.161 sec
Scene #3 5.745 sec
Scene #4 5.493 sec
Scene #5 5.111 sec
Scene #6 2.490 sec
Total Loading Time 31.457 sec

DAT:s20150427141147.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

[BristolRuss]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 20:10:46
Score: 13971
Average Frame Rate: 108.699
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 0.979 sec
Scene #2 4.664 sec
Scene #3 3.634 sec
Scene #4 3.612 sec
Scene #5 3.520 sec
Scene #6 1.501 sec
Total Loading Time 17.910 sec