Just for some information on how this game deals with cpu vs gpu power I ran some benchmarks to see how it responds to more clock speed of each plus memory speed; Here is my rig: PCPartpicker; plus a few case fans, a fan hub, and a light strip.
settings |
score |
avg fps |
stock |
12705 |
85.744 |
mem +500 |
13046 |
88.183 |
core +175 |
13337 |
89.853 |
core + mem oc |
13741 |
92.848 |
cpu @ 4.7 |
12910 |
86.842 |
combined oc |
14000 |
94.236 |
for those who were curious as I was as to what the game prefers. It appears as long as you are at/above 4.0, no real need to push your clock any higher for this game; which validates the osd where I was seeing 30-40% usage in game, only seeing a 1.1-1.4 increase, I would say is within margin of error; while if you can get more from your gpu than I can, you'll see pretty good results as I managed a 7.1-8.5 increase in fps (approx 8-10%), so there is something tangible there and might help someone pass a monitor refresh rate threshold.
and all the rest of the info from the last benchmark run for those who want it:
Code:
FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 5/30/2017 2:51:15 PM
Score: 14000
Average Frame Rate: 94.236
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.679 sec
Scene #2 2.200 sec
Scene #3 1.850 sec
Scene #4 2.447 sec
Scene #5 4.375 sec
Scene #6 1.009 sec
Total Loading Time 13.564 sec
DAT:s20170530145115.dat
Screen Size: 2560x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Maximum
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
-Glare: Standard
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: Quality
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled
System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
16344.707MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (VRAM 6103 MB)
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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
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2560x1080 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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