Official PC Benchmark Released for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

GTX 460 was considered a really good bang for your buck card when it was released, as well as having about a 15% factory overclock with a better cooling solution. It's why I bought it . It was the current generation's 8800GT .

Just so you know, huge amounts of VRAM do not translate to performance very well. It is just an upper limit on how high quality textures you can put on the video card without having to ask the CPU for additional data from system RAM. The performance difference between 1 and 2 GB VRAM is 0% for all games that use less than 1 GB VRAM. I don't think FF14 offers high enough resolution textures for the game to require a lot more than 1 GB RAM, but that could change.

Actually, when the servers go back up again, I'll load GPU-Z and check exactly how much it uses.

-edit-
Yeah. The game uses like 600 MB VRAM for me, with stuff on maximum. I have an idle use of 200 MB VRAM, and this increase to 800 when I'm in the middle of an area with a ton of characters.

Question:

My computer gets quite a bit louder when running the game. (I only play this game, no other game; XI in the past but I don't recall it doing the same with XI) Fans somewhere bump up with the extra (CPU use I assume) running XIV. Honestly I don't know what specifically gets louder.

I've gotten used to this but wishing it wouldn't. I'm sure it's probably fine, but it makes me feel like its working a lot harder. It did this with 1.0 and I hoped maybe it wouldn't with their new engine, but it does.

When I make my hardware change from a GeForce GTS240 to a EVGA GTX 560, are the newer generation cards (going from 200 series to 500) quieter? I will also be upgrading the PS from 350 to 650 (biggest I could get that was the exact same size physically - might be overkill but better than not enough). Any input as to whether my computer may be quieter or seem to "not be working as hard"? Is there a chance that much newer hardware alone won't be as loud?

It's your fans. Specifically your CPU fan and GPU fan. Games always make your components work harder. If they didn't, the games would probably not be playable. The components generate more heat while working harder, so there needs to be more cooling going on. FF11 does not utilize graphics cards very well, so none of them really speed up from that game. It is normal in more or less every game, though.

New components will still work as hard as they can to give you the best possible performance in the game, though. New video cards might be just as loud as your old one, it depends on what sort of fans are being used. Small, radial fans are often more easily noticable than larger fans. You should probably go for a video card model that is advertised as "not as loud as the competitors" if you are sensitive to that sort of noise.

Got 4,911 on 1920x1080 Maximum. Happy with that. Had a lot of other programs running at the same time and also had a blu ray paused plus the PC had been on for like 48 hours straight so I imagine on a fresh restart with little else running it should bump into the 5,000s at least.

Now I want the game though.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:3/8/2013 11:31:20 AM
Score:8766
Average Framerate:74.910
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Everything on max and resolution: 1920x1080 score: 8702... PS: the game looks so friggin beautiful and awesome

--EDIT-- I just noticed i had Perfect world + Guild Wars 2 running on the background when i benchmarked xD

Can you post the specs of your computer, mini ninja?

Forgot to mention mine was with 1920x 1080 resolution. Looking forward to playing.

Originally Posted by Roogle

Can you post the specs of your computer, mini ninja?

Nvidia Geforce GTX670
AMD FX-4170 Quad-core (4.20GHz)
8GB RAM

As what i can remember (( obviously im not home, so i cant check the rest of 'em ))

3 Months later...

I am finally getting around to this with my PC.

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor 4.2GHz
8139.504MB
Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2 GB DDR5




FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:6/7/2013 10:21:31 PM
Score:4504
Average Framerate:36.448
Performance:High



It performs on 1920x1080 Max well enough, but I will more than likely play on 1600x900 High. Gotta be able to do multiple things at once on the computer, ya know.


FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:6/7/2013 10:41:57 PM
Score:6348
Average Framerate:51.624
Performance:Very High

Apparently between phase 3 and 4 of beta they will release a new benchmark that will also have the finalized character creation process, that you can save / import / export character templates to use.