Endwalker benchmark is significantly better than Shadowbringers

[cheolsu]

Shadowbringers
Average Frame Rate: 111.3384
Minimum Frame Rate: 45

Endwalker
Average Frame Rate: 146.6522
Minimum Frame Rate: 62

Finally, 60 fps minimum! On the same hardware.

After running the benchmark, there's a button on the launcher to save results. Clicking that opens the text file in Notepad (and saves it in the benchmark folder. don't have to save it again). That text file contains all the info.

[Puremallace]

Wonder what or what they are not processing in the background anymore that is taking up less CPU space. Maybe a gfx card driver update?

[Arrhin]

My scores were within a margin of error from each other. Might want to make sure your settings are identical.

[Vahlnir]

Mine ran better this time as well, but I'm not sure if it's because everything is up to date or something. My hardware hasn't changed since 2017 when I bought my PC except for a new speaker. I don't use it hard though so that's probably why I haven't had many issues.

[Arrhin]

To be clear, I ran both benches back to back, with identical settings. If old scores for ShB are being used it stands to reason there will be differences.

[Roda]

They did say they were adjusting things with their lighting system didn't they?

[Duskane]

no controller support and screenshot button only works sometimes really my only issue with it

[cheolsu]

To be clear, I ran both benches back to back, with identical settings. If old scores for ShB are being used it stands to reason there will be differences.

you're right. that was bad science of me to use an old shadowbringers score, however i'm happy to report the same result: massive increase in performance for me. dunno what makes the difference.

here are my current shadowbringers results:
Average Frame Rate: 85.51546
Minimum Frame Rate: 33

i made sure the settings were the same this time

full report:
FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on: 7/13/2021 6:25:23
Score: 12860
Average Frame Rate: 85.51546
Minimum Frame Rate: 33
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.153 sec
Scene #2 2.354 sec
Scene #3 2.716 sec
Scene #4 1.656 sec
Scene #5 0.801 sec
Total Loading Time 8.68 sec

DAT:s20210713062523.dat

Screen Size: 3840x2160
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
<i snipped the settings details here because the Maximum preset defines them>

System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (ver.10.0.19042 Build 19042)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
32710.625MB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090(VRAM 24348 MB)

[ZedxKayn]

The latest big patch absolutely destroyed my frame rate, I hope EW will improve it again.

[cheolsu]

and here is endwalker again, so they are back to back. this is at maximum setting, so there is the most room for improvement

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Benchmark
Tested on: 7/13/2021 6:42:15
Score: 20838
Average Frame Rate: 146.5652
Minimum Frame Rate: 62
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.093 sec
Scene #2 1.952 sec
Scene #3 2.95 sec
Scene #4 1.165 sec
Scene #5 0.567 sec
Total Loading Time 7.727 sec

DAT:s20210713064215.dat

Screen Size: 3840x2160
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (ver.10.0.19042 Build 19042)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
32710.625MB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090(VRAM 24348 MB)