FFXIV poor performance outlier on new Radeon 9070 XT cards!?

[Alice_Rivers]

yeah I have mine set to my monitor refresh rate of 165Hz, I would get around 70-120 FPS depending where I was with my old 3070 Ti, it's really sad to see it preform worse than a card that weak and old. I hope a fix comes soon

That does seem a little out of place, just out of curiosity is this A: The same Windows install that you ran the 3070Ti with? B: If it is, did you just uninstall the Nvidia driver and plug in the AMD or did you run DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller)? Also what happens if you keep vsync set in the AMD driver but uncap the frame rate in FF? Taking another look at those screenshots, I'm noticing the GPU utilisation is showing a fair amount of headroom, are you CPU limited in Limsa?

EDIT: Did a little testing on my end in Shirogane, I know a spot where I get only 80 odd fps (X13.5, Y11.7 looking southwest toward the lighthouse) and pulled up my system monitor I see 80% GPU usage, but none of my CPU threads are getting over 80% regardless of if I set the game to 1440p, 1080p or 768p (GPU use does vary accordingly though). What I can't say is if it's because I'm running the game in Linux or because there's an actual problem with the game.

[s32ialx]

yeah I DDU'd in safe mode, the funny thing is I tried both having vsync on in the AMD app and off and when it is off it very seldomly spikes up to 62 fps D:

also for context I am running a B550 ASUS TUF motherboard with a Ryzen 9 5900X and 64GB of RAM

[Cubester]

Proud but sad owner of a XFX 9070 XT and FSR is not able to be turned on, unless I am just being a blonde and it's forced on but greyed out to me usually means not enabled and the lil pop up when launching said FSR is not enabled.

Also Average FPS of 56 sitting idle in limsa.

It’s greyed out because you have an AMD GPU, and therefore cannot select DLSS. And FSR won’t kick in unless you set the resolution scaling to less than 100. It’s a tad confusing but FSR at 100 resolution scale is just running the game natively without any upscaling.

[KayVonTrarx]

Yeah I managed to snag a Pulse 9070 XT for MSRP and not looking forward to the performance in FFXIV. Fingers crossed that they can figure it out in a driver update. A lot of ppl I know play on AMD GPUs for FFXIV and they did reassure me about it too.

So I'm still happy with the card as I'm building my 1st desktop after using gaming laptops forever (travel for work). The performance value is great in all the other games I'm interested in.

Building on Sunday so will report back on how FFXIV performs.

[s32ialx]

Let's hope a fix comes out for ya before than! till then I can say for certain even if it caps at 60 it feels like the smoothest 60FPS I have ever felt.

[Alice_Rivers]

How very strange. Here's hoping CBU3 gets word of this and cares enough to dig deeper and fix it.

[s32ialx]

Resetting Adrenaline to defaults and turning off any features of the card and just having it bog standard default seems to make it perform better marginally able to get 80 fps sometimes... but no where near what GamersNexus chart is showing and my pc should be more than capable of obtaining that

[CapaxInfiniti]

Gamers Nexus is one of the very few who test Dawntrail.
Steve deserves an award for helping quite a few of us dodge a major headache today.

Theres no reason a card released less than 12 hours ago should run this game worse than mid ranged cards from two entire generations ago.

9800x3d with 9070 XT pulling 2080 super levels of frames is pretty sad to see.

[Alice_Rivers]

Gamers Nexus is one of the very few who test Dawntrail.
Steve deserves an award for helping quite a few of us dodge a major headache today.

Theres no reason a card released less than 12 hours ago should run this game worse than mid ranged cards from two entire generations ago.

9800x3d with 9070 XT pulling 2080 super levels of frames is pretty sad to see.

Given what I'm seeing on my system and the fact that the FF14 result is an anomaly in GN's test suite I don't think it's the card's fault, or even AMD's, I'm inclined to believe something is afoot with the game. What really surprises me though is the fact that they make a PS4 version of the game which itself has a custom AMD GPU so you'd think that FF14 would be properly tested and optimised for AMD's CPU and GPU architectures.

[Red-thunder]

Gamers Nexus is one of the very few who test Dawntrail.
Steve deserves an award for helping quite a few of us dodge a major headache today.

Theres no reason a card released less than 12 hours ago should run this game worse than mid ranged cards from two entire generations ago.

9800x3d with 9070 XT pulling 2080 super levels of frames is pretty sad to see.

In every other game 9070 XT is making 5070 Ti look like an absolute pathetic joke (in terms of cost per frame). It's just FF14 that's different. And potentially it could be fixed with drivers. Most people are still far, far better off buying 9070 XT rather than 5070Ti/5080, especially since the former is actually in stock at MSRP.