FFXIV - Heavensward Benchmark

[Emerson]

The offical FFXIV Heavensward Benchmark was offically released this morning. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/

I am still yet to run it, it does include a DX11 version for those that have GPUs that support DX11. Enjoy everyone!

-Emerson

 

[Linnaete]

Yeah, the character creation screen still isn't converting me to go Au Ra for the expansion. I was quickly fiddling with it on a Windows laptop (slow bugger, as expected) and I don't really care too much for the cutesy, slender, petite and delicate look they've overwhelmingly created for the female Au Ra. I tried to make some kind of succubus-like Au Ra Xaela, to little satisfactory avail. They supposedly can't be any taller than me in real life and for some reason, face options are tied to horn options...

Male options are better, if only because you can create something much more inhuman with a male Xaela than you can with a female. They have the benefit of having the more outlandish and anime hair options.

But overall, yeah, I'm not sold on the Au Ra. The decision to have such staggering physical differences between the sexes is just odd - it doesn't strike me as a very cohesively created race. They clearly designed one half of this race for a certain demographic in mind, particularly the people who want more super kawaii cute character avatars. These could have been more interesting, more bestial-looking humanoids with greater physical parity between the males and females, but instead we have awkward looking humans with horns and occasional patches of scales that look more akin to a bad skin disease.

Here was something hilarious from the benchmark character creator though. What happens when you squeeze a male Roegadyn into AF2 Dragoon gear (not my picture)?:

 

[Emerson]

@.Fleur Don't know if the male options are all that much better Male options are more less human looking for sure, but I call this eyecandy. If I am going to switch this is what I would switch to, but I would have to change my name as Emerson really isn't a girl's name. I'll have to think about this though.

 

[Mitsuki]

My score:

Score: 9577
Average Frame Rate: 74.412
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 3.239 sec
Scene #2 13.494 sec
Scene #3 7.903 sec
Scene #4 7.258 sec
Scene #5 6.289 sec
Scene #6 2.849 sec
Total Loading Time 41.036 sec

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11



The game looks good...really good.

 

[AuronX]

Oooo I love benchmarks! Good timing for this one, too, since I've been eager to see how FFXIV runs on my new laptop (Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi). Here we go!

Desktop (Maximum, DX11, 720p):

Score: 8136
Average Frame Rate: 76.310
Performance: Extremely High
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.282 sec
Scene #2 9.244 sec
Scene #3 8.281 sec
Scene #4 7.408 sec
Scene #5 6.656 sec
Scene #6 2.549 sec
Total Loading Time 36.422 sec



Laptop (Maximum, DX11, 720p):

Score: 735
Average Frame Rate: 4.734
Performance: Insufficient
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 31.427 sec
Scene #2 78.070 sec
Scene #3 68.489 sec
Scene #4 63.134 sec
Scene #5 70.397 sec
Scene #6 38.084 sec
Total Loading Time 349.605 sec



Laptop (Standard [Laptop], DX9, 720p):

Score: 1812
Average Frame Rate: 14.502
Performance: Slightly Low
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 32.195 sec
Scene #2 25.447 sec
Scene #3 21.951 sec
Scene #4 22.822 sec
Scene #5 21.545 sec
Scene #6 10.725 sec
Total Loading Time 134.687 sec

Overall I'm happy with my laptop's performance. Obviously desktop PC is the way to go, but hey, my last laptop couldn't even run FFXIV on the lowest possible settings, so I'm happy with this upgrade. Technically my 'laptop' is actually a Windows tablet with a keyboard dock, so it's pretty awesome to see FFXIV running on a tablet at all, nevermind at a playable framerate!

 

[Raiiyokuu]

Tested on: 6/8/2015 12:32:02 PM
Score: 11345
Average Frame Rate: 89.507
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.641 sec
Scene #2 12.569 sec
Scene #3 8.796 sec
Scene #4 5.790 sec
Scene #5 4.683 sec
Scene #6 2.805 sec
Total Loading Time 37.287 sec

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

And this is after I overclocked my GPU to 1500mhz clock and 3700mhz Memory

 

[hodjimon]

Score: 8056
Average Frame Rate: 64.610
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 4.403 sec
Scene #2 17.486 sec
Scene #3 7.431 sec
Scene #4 7.396 sec
Scene #5 6.525 sec
Scene #6 4.539 sec
Total Loading Time 47.784 sec


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Screen Size: 1280x720
Screen Mode: Windowed
DirectX Version: 9
Graphics Presets: High (Laptop)

Score: 7975
Average Frame Rate: 63.080
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 5.578 sec
Scene #2 17.652 sec
Scene #3 7.547 sec
Scene #4 7.708 sec
Scene #5 11.887 sec
Scene #6 7.737 sec
Total Loading Time 58.111 sec


DAT:s20150612230117.dat


Screen Size: 1280x720
Screen Mode: Windowed
DirectX Version: 9
Graphics Presets: High (Laptop)