Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Benchmark PC – Ryzen 5 3600 & RTX 3060 Ti | 1080p | 1440p | 4K

Greetings, everyone.

Today we’re checking out the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Benchmark utility, on my R5 3600 and the 3060 Ti.

I don’t normally test games that I’m not committed to fully play, or have played, but this isn’t technically a game, it’s a bespoke benchmark from a game, an mmo at that. I have played FF 14 though, in 2013 when the ARR “reboot” was released, so technically I’m not completely unfamiliar here with the game itself, although a lot has changed since 2013 for sure.

You can download this benchmark here: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/

Here are my current PC specs:

-CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (stock settings) with Coolermaster Hyper 212 Black RGB (w/2 fans, push-pull).
-Mobo: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
-GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC and WHQL driver 471.41.
-RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT (2x8GB) CL16 DDR4@3200 Mhz.
-Storage: PNY XLR8 CS3030 1TB NVMe (O.S. and game), Samsung 750 EVO 500 GB.
-Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 (Intake: 2×140 Front, 1×120 Lower Front – Exhaust: 1×140 Rear, 1×120 Top/VRM Area).
-PSU: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold.
-O.S: Windows 10 Pro 64bit (v.21H1).
-Monitor: AOC AGON AG251FG 1080p-240Hz.

Some timestamps:

00:00 – Intro and launcher Graphic Settings / Presets overview
02:52 – [1080p]Max/High/Standard (Desktop), split-screen benchmark comparison (full run)
09:33 – [1440p DSR]Max/High/Standard (Desktop), split-screen benchmark comparison
16:15 – [4K DSR]Max/High/Standard (Desktop), split-screen benchmark comparison

As mentioned in the video, this is not a game I’m currently playing but who cares, it’s just a benchmark, I’m also testing new 1440p upscaling stuff for my videos, so this one is one of my “test subjects” to check if the upscale quality for Youtube is decent enough.
FYI, I record at 1080p via Nvidia Share, at 50 mb, but I don’t upload at 1080p anymore due to YT basically never converting my 1080p videos to VP9, or taking days / weeks to do so, if they ever, so uploading at 1440p, even when upscaled, therefore losing some crispness and quality, is a better choice for me, since my uploads will be VP9 from the very first second the 1440p version of the video is available to watch, and that’s better than 1080p with the mobile-quality AVC codec, which doesn’t look fine at all on any screen bigger than 6-10 inches.

Anyway, dumb stuff aside, to me benchmark-only videos are boring, so that’s why I rarely benchmark stuff I’m not fully playing but (to add regular gameplay etc.), but this expansion hasn’t come out yet so we only have the latest Benchmark tool available, so I thought “why not, just a few quick tests”.

As with any mmo, even in an offline benchmark situation like this, the game can be pretty CPU limited, especially running such an old engine by today’s standards, despite the team in charge having added a lot of stuff to it, since I last played.

It seems to perform very well on my rig though, but 1080p will bottleneck the system in crowded areas, so it’s not a bad idea to run this game at higher resolutions on a GPU like the 3060 Ti that can handle the extra load.

So yeah, it’s not like this game has super high GPU requirements, it really didn’t back in 2013, and it’s mostly relying on CPU brute strength in certain scenarios, as the benchmark shows, basically like most MMOs, from past eras, now and probably the future with some exceptions I guess.

As usual, I hope this can be useful to any of you, and I’ll see you next time : )

#FFXIV #Endwalker #RTX3060Ti

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