FPS scaling with CPU using FFXIV Shadowbringers benchmark

[porina]

The FFXIV Shadowbringers benchmark was released just over a day ago and I've been testing with it since. On thing I thought I'd try was CPU scaling. I was going to use real CPUs, but it would be a major pain to move the same GPU around different systems so I decided to go the bios route, reducing cores and HT.

 

Test system main parts are 8086k + 1080Ti. Ram is 3000C16 dual channel.

 

I decided to run High (Desktop) setting at 1080p, as this gives a balance of high quality and framerate. The benchmark outputs an average and minimum fps. I will round the average to one decimal place. The game only gives an integer value for minimum. I decided to fix the CPU to 4.0 GHz for the comparison, with a higher stock clock run left in for indication.

 

Average, minimum, configuration

155.1, 62, 6c12t stock

155.2, 61, 6c12t 4.0 GHz

153.5, 58, 6c6t

153.5, 57, 4c8t

149.1, 50, 4c4t

140.3, 41, 2c4t

 

Well, I found it interesting. Only a small drop going from 6c12t to either 6c6t or 4c8t. Bigger drop, especially for minimums, once down to 4t. I suspect but haven't verified but the bench stores one second average fps, so the minimum would be the lowest 1 second average. I also need to look further when it happens, and what's going on at the time.

[Jurrunio]

I wonder if frequency incrase can solve that for lower core counts?

[porina]

8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

I wonder if frequency incrase can solve that for lower core counts?

Good question. I was thinking of doing a 5.0 GHz run later to see if it helps the top end, so could try it then also.

[bomerr]

3 hours ago, porina said:

Only a small drop going from 6c12t to either 6c6t or 4c8t. Bigger drop, especially for minimums, once down to 4t.

Look at stream hardware survey: over 50% of gamers have 4 core CPUs. Most are going to be 8t. So devs will optimize games for 4c/8t. 

 

Post up your 4K result

Spoiler

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  5/25/2019 5:05:25
Score: 9958
Average Frame Rate: 66.6849
Minimum Frame Rate: 22
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    1.645 sec
  Scene #2    3.503 sec
  Scene #3    4.17 sec
  Scene #4    2.832 sec
  Scene #5    1.428 sec
 Total Loading Time    13.578 sec
 

System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (ver.10.0.17134 Build 17134)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 4.40GHz
32693.867MB [8x4GB 2400CL13]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti(VRAM 11127 MB)

 

[porina]

1 hour ago, bomerr said:

Post up your 4K result

I don't use 4k monitor on gaming system but did run it on my test system if that's of any interest:

7800X + RTX 2070

4k max, 48.1 ave, 17 min

4k high desktop, 56.0 ave, 18 min

4k standard desktop, 91.9 ave, 23 min

 

I need to do a PSU swap on my game system later and I was going to move it over to the 4k monitor then for some runs.

[porina]

6 hours ago, bomerr said:

Post up your 4K result

Was yours on max settings?

 

Spoiler

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  25/5/2019 18:01:52
Score: 9583
Average Frame Rate: 64.11198
Minimum Frame Rate: 22
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    1.318 sec
  Scene #2    2.211 sec
  Scene #3    3.097 sec
  Scene #4    2.119 sec
  Scene #5    0.932 sec
 Total Loading Time    9.677 sec

 

Screen Size: 3840x2160
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

 

[bomerr]

7 hours ago, porina said:

Was yours on max settings?

my score (9958-67fps) was 4k max w/ the Strix with max power & voltage setting.

I wanted to see how my 5820k compared to a modern CPU.

I'm really happy I got this cpu over the 4790k back in 2014. 

5 years and no bottleneck.

So much future proofing. 

[Mister Woof]

A lot of these MMO type games are very single thread dependant.

Most don't scale very well past 4 threads because of their game code

 

Wow and FFXIV both are like that

[porina]

6 hours ago, bomerr said:

my score (9958-67fps) was 4k max w/ the Strix with max power & voltage setting.

Ooh, same GPU. Can't remember if I got the OC version or not, but if you adjusted yours that's probably why you're slightly ahead of me.

 

6 hours ago, bomerr said:

I wanted to see how my 5820k compared to a modern CPU.

Plenty enough not to hold things back, in this case. Also, 4k probably isn't be best scenario to compare CPU as it'll be GPU limited. To compare CPU, let's use lower settings like 1080p high (desktop):

Spoiler

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  24/5/2019 21:07:10
Score: 19135
Average Frame Rate: 155.0744
Minimum Frame Rate: 62
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    0.906 sec
  Scene #2    1.776 sec
  Scene #3    2.606 sec
  Scene #4    1.776 sec
  Scene #5    0.865 sec
 Total Loading Time    7.929 sec

 

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: High (Desktop)

 

 

[bomerr]

2 hours ago, porina said:

Ooh, same GPU. Can't remember if I got the OC version or not, but if you adjusted yours that's probably why you're slightly ahead of me.

 

Plenty enough not to hold things back, in this case. Also, 4k probably isn't be best scenario to compare CPU as it'll be GPU limited. To compare CPU, let's use lower settings like 1080p high (desktop):

 

 

Spoiler

 

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  5/26/2019 3:34:28
Score: 18112
Average Frame Rate: 146.5885
Minimum Frame Rate: 56
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    1.754 sec
  Scene #2    3.507 sec
  Scene #3    4.195 sec
  Scene #4    2.829 sec
  Scene #5    1.501 sec
 Total Loading Time    13.786 sec

DAT:s20190526033428.dat

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

 

[Mister Woof]

Decided to run the benchmark on my system.

 

1080p, maximum settings:

Spoiler

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  5/23/2019 19:37:48
Score: 17513
Average Frame Rate: 120.838
Minimum Frame Rate: 55
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    1.156 sec
  Scene #2    2.702 sec
  Scene #3    3.259 sec
  Scene #4    2.207 sec
  Scene #5    1.248 sec
 Total Loading Time    10.572 sec

 

 

1080p, high (desktop) settings:

Spoiler

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers Benchmark
Tested on:  5/26/2019 7:59:27
Score: 18262
Average Frame Rate: 127.8262
Minimum Frame Rate: 59
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1    1.173 sec
  Scene #2    2.703 sec
  Scene #3    3.342 sec
  Scene #4    2.186 sec
  Scene #5    1.245 sec
 Total Loading Time    10.649 sec

Not bad I guess. I know this game tends to prefer Nvidia hardware.

[Mister Woof]

@porina what storage do you have installed on? Your load times are blowing my 660p out of the water lol

[porina]

1 minute ago, Plutosaurus said:

@porina what storage do you have installed on? Your load times are blowing my 660p out of the water lol

The 9-ish second one is on Optane 900p. Any faster than that I probably turned off the "clear disk cache" option in benchmark so it loads from ram. Think I get down to around 7 seconds. I did that as I was benching a LOT and saving a few seconds here and there doesn't hurt. Load times doesn't affect the score.