FFXIV Benchmark Test Now Available

Written by: (@magickmann1) | February 21, 2013 4:04 pm
FFXIV Benchmark Test Now Available
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Will Your PC Need Updated? Check out the FFXIV Benchmark Test

Back when Square Enix‘s MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) launched the first time, players who weren’t in the closed beta might have had a rude awakening when they tried the FFXIV benchmark test. That test was the first flag to many that the game might be running into some troubles come launch time. The requirements were a bit high end then and a great deal of FFXIV fans found out the hard way that their PC just wasn’t up to the challenge the game’s resources had in store.

This time around, Square Enix is hoping that fans might fare better with the newly available FFXIV Benchmark test.

The FFXIV benchmark will run a few varied cut scenes that showcase some particle effects, multiple characters on screen, and even some intense summon animations. While doing so, the FFXIV benchmark will run a score from start to finish. The higher the score at the end, the better off your PC will be come launch time. The cut scenes consist of maps and models from the actual game.

With all the changes made to the resources required in the game for A Realm Reborn‘s launch, players should (again SHOULD, as even the FFXIV site says it isn’t 100% guaranteed to run on your system based on score) see somewhat higher scores on this FFXIV Benchmark. For those looking for higher graphical settings, you can adjust some graphic and effect settings prior to running the FFXIV benchmark to check out your score at various levels of player optimization.

You can grab the FFXIV benchmark and give it a go on your PC here. The score description chart for the FFXIV benchmark is also available on the download page but for those of you that are curious, a score of below 2000 means you will have issues running FFXIV:ARR on normal settings if you can run it at all.

After running the FFXIV benchmark on high settings in 1080 resolution my score was 6519 so I think I should be good to go for launch, although I will admit my graphics card isn’t the MOST current, but it still keeps doing the job mmorpg final fantasy xiv FFXIV Benchmark Test Now Available

What was your score? Post it below!

  • Monstercloud

    Would love to run it, but it immediately crashes even before the loading screen, popping up 2 different access errors.

    This much trouble just for the benchmark…. ffs..

  • http://twitter.com/zwimo PossiblyZachary

    5320 @ Max with 1920×1200 – couldn’t figure out how to force full screen it just runs in a window.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=692975110 Laurence Aromin E

    Here is my score, 7516 1920×1080 Maximum Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series. Hopefully I get into the beta

  • http://www.facebook.com/max.samsonov.1 Max Samsonov

    Score was  3679 on maximum settings, 1920×1200 resolution, 30 fps average.
    AMD phenom II x6 @ 2.70GHz, 8 gigs ram, Radeon 6850.

  • http://www.facebook.com/james.hansen.73 James Hansen

    6003 with maximum settings and 1080p it looks amazing

  • http://twitter.com/ZenRowe Zen Rowe

    On standards settings I got a score of 5531, On absolute maximum setting I had a score of ~3000. all I have is an 7770, not even remotely high end and the game still registers as perfectly playable on maximum settings. It’s likely that a majority of PC gamers will be able to run the game with little difficulty. Enjoy folks

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=786284769 Robert Hagy

    My score: 10138

  • undeadzsedz

    woooo 7564 1360×768 on Max.. Dis game looks prrrty.. Cant wait to try it out

  • altz

    4855 at max, 1920×1200  on a old 5870

  • http://www.facebook.com/Zanzibar312 Keenan Douglas Jens Simpson

    Got a 7565 on standard 1280×720 and a 3146 on max 1920×1080. All I’ve got is a radeon 7870 16gb ram and an amd FX-8150.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Byrne/100001642673542 Michael Byrne

    Some great scores here! Quick question. I had a HUGE upgrade from the PC I had when FFXIV FIRST launched so I can’t really compare old and new benchmark scores to see how much the graphics boost from the server side has helped ARR. Would have loved to include that info in my article but just didn’t have scores to show. Anyone running this current test on the same machine they ran it on at initial release to offer insight?

    • http://twitter.com/ZenRowe Zen Rowe

       the only difference for me was that my old rig had a 5770, my new one has a 7770.

      My scores on the 1.0 benchmark barely passed 1000 on standard. with the new benchmark (all settings on medium @ 1280×720) my score is 7681

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Byrne/100001642673542 Michael Byrne

        Wow! That’s quite a difference!

  • Richard Nichols

    With a core i3 2120 and a GTX 560 I scored a little above 6900 on High settings at 1600×900 resolution(my native is 1440×900) so I am ready to go :) WOOT.

  • http://www.facebook.com/richard.crann Richard Crann

    I got the scores below when running on High and Maximum settings:

    1920×1080 on Maximum = Score 3912 (Rated High)
    1920×1080 on High = Score 5474 (Rated Very High)Looks like I can crank the settings up and play this game with no issues. SWEET!

  • http://www.facebook.com/dan.cobb.12 Dan Cobb

    7051.  wish i could figure out how to go to a full screen mode instead of windowed.  Crossfire didnt even kick on while i was running this.

    • http://twitter.com/ZenRowe Zen Rowe

       crossfire has no support in the game yet. the benchmark will only use a single GPU. Also there is no option for fullscreen mode, only windowed is available.

      • http://www.facebook.com/richard.crann Richard Crann

        I didnt even check to see if it was utilizing SLi, damn. I am pretty shocked that my computer got the below ratings on a single 560 Ti.

  • http://twitter.com/Luke_Malcolm Luke Malcolm

    Computer 1: 7264 1920×1200 on Max

    Computer 2: 17894 1920×1200 on Max 

    I did it on my 2 computers, & one did better than I expected

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Byrne/100001642673542 Michael Byrne

      HAHA! Yeah..I think you are MORE than ok my friend lol!

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniel.tisdale2 Daniel Tisdale

    5334 Maximum settings 1920×1080. i5 3570k, 16gb RAM, Radeon HD 6950 2GB

  • http://twitter.com/Hentg Zach

    Score:7392
    Average Framerate:62.454
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz8167.109MBNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti(VRAM 4042 MB

  • http://www.73igg.com/ 73igg

     1600×900 4206 max – not bad for my cheap gpu

  • http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

    1280×720 Maximum 6031. Seem to look better at medium settings with a score over 9000.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasonschulergraphics Jason Schuler

    I’s can’t do this cuz its not coming to mac guess I have to give up MMO’s to buy a PC oh well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bill.halverson.3 Bill Halverson

    1920×1080 Max settings scored a 7895 with a i5-2500k OC’s to 4.5GHz and a 7970 OC’d

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000212167453 Geoff Watson

    I really feel like there is something weird with the benchmark because i got 7042 1920×1200 maximum but i only had 15% gpu usage at the most it was usually 10% throughout the benchmark i7 920 @4.2GHz GTX 690 Quad SLI

    • http://twitter.com/Critzkreig Cody Moody

      Why do you have two 690s but you’re still using an i7 920? If your CPU maxes out before your GPUs do, then you’re CPU is bottlenecking you. >_<

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=579935261 facebook-579935261

    8579 on a 7970 with an old i7 920 OC’d to 4.0Ghz

    Doesn’t seem to have fullscreen support though, So I don’t know what the crossfire performance would be with the two 7970′s

    max settings @ 1080

  • Draekwon

    FFXIV Score:6835
    res: 1920×1080 
    settings: maximum 
    hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz, AMD Radeon HD 7950
    Average Framerate: 56.080

    looks awesome. I hope this game will be enjoyable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kirzansix Mike Coulombe

    4700 @ High (defaults), 1680×1050

    I have a budget rig from 2 years ago / last year. FX-4100 with a 6850. It ran surprisingly well. This feature needs to come out with more games, IMO.

  • http://www.facebook.com/spankthismonkey Thomas Vu

    Score:8074
    Average Framerate:69.505
    Performance:Extremely High
    Screen Size: 1920×1200
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

    Rig from Origin.  (If its from Origin is it still custom?)

    Anyways, beautiful graphics and I love all the classic FF stuff you see everywhere.  Favorite part, random cactuar running midway through the video.

    One gripe about the game though, the combat still looks boring somehow…

  • http://www.facebook.com/cmadrid2 Carlos Madrid

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/21/2013 11:19:26 PM
    Score:9517
    Average Framerate:85.688
    Performance:Extremely High
    Screen Size: 1600x900Graphics Presets: Maximum

  • http://www.facebook.com/cmadrid2 Carlos Madrid

    Ran it again with Chrome shutdown after Legendary..

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/21/2013 11:34:26 PM
    Score:10111
    Average Framerate:90.703
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

    Screen Size: 1600×900
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Berger/612288895 Nick Berger

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:22/02/2013 17:12:29
    Score:7005
    Average Framerate:58.259
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

    Screen Size: 1920×1080
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

    i7 3770k (stock), 16gb 2133mhz ram, 2 x 7970, but cause it doesnt run fullscreen its only using one video card.. so I think im safe :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex

    PIXELS N ***
    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:22/02/2013 10:55:50
    Score:4636
    Average Framerate:37.377
    Performance:High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920×1200
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

  • http://twitter.com/LiamRdsn Talos85

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:22/02/2013 09:47:02
    Score:9926
    Average Framerate:83.204
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

    Screen Size: 1280×720
    Graphics Presets: Medium

  • XeionZevers

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/22/2013 5:12:56 AM
    Score:8457
    Average Framerate:72.860
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

    Screen Size: 1920×1080
    Graphics Presets: Maximum 

    System Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

  • http://twitter.com/TrinnYorae Jon Senson

    Had some issues with the benchmark running a Radeon HD 7870 and AMD FX 8350 4ghz processor.  Running it only showed a black screen with the UI elements visible and sound playing fine.

    The system is only about a month old with fully up to date drivers and directx installs.

    I did some fiddling and found out that deselecting the ‘Improve overall graphic quality” button fixed the issue and got me visuals; however, there are no particle effects rendering in the demo at all.

    With these issues I still scored a 5098 score on maximum (without the improve graphics option) at 1920×1200.

    Hopefully these are just issues with the benchmark engine itself and not my system being borked (other games run perfectly fine).

    • http://www.facebook.com/kirzansix Mike Coulombe

      There will most likely be GPU drivers updates. Specially since you’re one of those with the good stuff (the stuff they mainly do updates for). Also, the big testing phases haven’t even started. Technical issues like that, given the people that get them REPORT them, should be ironed out. Again, specially since you’re one of those with the good stuff lol.

      But don’t put too much thought in a single-player cutscene benchmark. Yes, I know it’s in-game graphics, but there has been no solo / overcrowded frames in it either. I think the most you see on screen at one time is like, 25? What I’m saying is, it’s unreliable and probably just for a VERY broad preview. Like, if you scored 500, you should upgrade or give up.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Ridl/100001692849053 Chris Ridl

      I had this issue too. If you uncheck the bottom item (something about cutscene depth) along with the Improve overall graphic quality, it will fix the blur issue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/captainbrahnco Bill Watson

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/22/2013 7:10:43 AM
    Score:6264
    Average Framerate:54.883
    Performance:Very High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920×1080
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

    AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
    8188.527MB
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 3778 MB)

  • Revanhavoc

    I can’t believe people still care about this game and are willing to give it another chance!?!

    Just throw the box again Gary!

    Throw that box!

    • http://www.facebook.com/kirzansix Mike Coulombe

      I can’t believe people still troll threads of things they don’t care about.

      Oh damn, why am I feeding you.

    • rustyhagun

       I can believe people will be blown away when this game goes live. …I’m in…so ya.

  • http://www.facebook.com/christer.lindqvist.587 Christer Lindqvist

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:22/02/2013 17:37:38
    Score:9049
    Average Framerate:76.238
    Performance:Extremely High
     -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

    Screen Size: 1920×1080

    System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bitar
    Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
    16360.848MB
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680(VRAM 4042 MB)

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kyuzos Diogo Pereira

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:22/02/2013 16:38:32
    Score:5158
    Average Framerate:42.109
    Performance:Very High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920×1200
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

  • GamerEnvy

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)Tested on:22/02/2013 12:08:07 pm ESTScore:7121Average Framerate:59.307Performance: Extremely High -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920x1200Graphics Presets: Maximum

    GPU: AMD 7970

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/bramborasean Sean Brambora

    Official Benchmark (Exploration)

    1920 x 1200 MaximumPerformance Very High
    6415

    AMD II Phenom BE 3.4 gigbytes, 12 gigbytes DDR3, ATI HD 6750 1 gigbyte GGDR 3

  • http://twitter.com/Critzkreig Cody Moody

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/23/2013 5:39:40 AM
    Score:6709
    Average Framerate:55.832
    Performance:Very High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002038208867 Dan Winborne

    Wow, look at all the e-penis waving. I can do that too:

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/23/2013 8:39:40 AM
    Score:890670000@&*^$
    Average Framerate:160.999
    Performance:OMERGERD
    -Can run NASA at the same time, while playing this game.

  • Poordevil

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:2/23/2013 7:52:06 AM
    Score:6648
    Average Framerate:54.552
    Performance:Very High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920×1200

    So there ye be. Had all video options maxed out except no radial blur.

    GTX 580 3gb vidcard / i7 920 quad core CPU / 6gb system ram. Monitor is a fw900 wide screen CRT with a max resolution of 2304X1440, but the highest option available in the test was 1920X1200.

  • https://profiles.google.com/105601339775765951840 Kendjin

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
    Tested on:23/02/2013 18:39:45
    Score:6621
    Average Framerate:54.304
    Performance:Very High
     -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

    Screen Size: 1920×1080
    Graphics Presets: Maximum

    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 4.50GHz8150.176MB DDR3 RAMAMD Radeon HD 7900 Series(VRAM 2776 MB) 8.17.0010.1191

    Used the preset Maximum. Is it possible to go higher in the benchmark?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-R-White/100000469008732 John R White

    FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)Tested on:23/02/2013 19:39:45
    Score:1628
    Average Framerate:15.251
    Performance:Very Low 
    -Easily capable of burning your PC.
    Should perform exceptionally well, with low resolutions.

    Screen Size: 640×480
    Graphics Presets: low

  • Davey Sawatzky

    I got 8231 with an average fps of 80.852 and 6698 at 1080 with an average fps of 59.262 both at maximum.

    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
    8187.484MB
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.1407

  • Mike Richardson

    I am not much of a sqenix gamer but I did sign up for this beta because the game looked interesting.  So I ran the benchmark twice on my system I built a year ago.  

    intel I52500K (stock atm)
    nvidia gtx660
    8gb ddr3 1333 ram

    max = 5850 very high
    high = 7628 extremely high

    At least if I get in I know that I am able to turn on all of the eye candy and not worry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/oneniisama Bear Powell

    Decided to give it a non-min/max test so I’d see how it performed on normal playing. Had torrent leech/seeds up (high priority), 2x voip programs, 1 chat program, MPC-HCx64 playing FLAC album, guild wars 2 running in background, half a dozen sites up in browser, and nothing turned off/tweaked to maximize performance.

    1920×1080 – Maximum: (High) 4347 (35 avg fps)
    1920×1080 – Medium: (Very High) 7096 (59 avg fps)

    CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz
    RAM: 8 GB DDR3/ 1600 MHZ
    GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB DDR5 (Current UTD Driver)
    HDD: 2TB SATA III 6GB/s 7200RPM 64MB Cache
    OS: Windows 7 – Home Premium (64-bit)

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