Gaming: Final Fantasy XV

Upon arriving to PC earlier this, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console, fruits of their successful partnership with NVIDIA, with hardly any hint of the troubles during Final Fantasy XV's original production and development.

In preparation for the launch, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark that they have since updated. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues.

Square Enix has patched the benchmark with custom graphics settings and bugfixes to be much more accurate in profiling in-game performance and graphical options. For our testing, we run the standard benchmark with a FRAPs overlay, taking a 6 minute recording of the test.

AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List
Game Genre Release Date API IGP Low Med High
Final Fantasy XV JRPG Mar
2018
DX11 720p
Standard
1080p
Standard
4K
Standard
8K
Standard

All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.

AnandTech IGP Low Medium High
Average FPS
95th Percentile

At 4K, the differences are minimal, though at the lower resolutions there is still some performance on the table.

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  • Korguz - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    Phynaz
    better then the typical Intel.. overpriced, and not much gained
  • MDD1963 - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    How many folks with GTX1080s would be using either of these CPUs tested (even if they were for sale)? :)
  • Allan_Hundeboll - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    Gamers on a budget
  • mikato - Thursday, April 4, 2019 - link

    Someone that decided to start gaming, or changed to a game that required more graphics power so bought a graphics card. Maybe a kid whose parents bought a computer, or a hand-me-down computer. Even I have been gaming and building computers a long time and I have upgraded the graphics card on my computers several times around the middle of that system's lifetime (I keep them pretty long). I have friends that play WoW and needed to upgrade.There are plenty of situations.

    Have you seen gaming benchmarks with low end CPUs vs high end CPUs when both have the same high end graphics card?
  • Ethnipod - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    wrong power consumption test ...

    Ryzen 5 2500X get DDR4 2933 (1.3 V) vs coffe lake DDR4 2667 (1.2 V).

    (for Ryzen 5 2500X clock up ram freq to 3200, or downclock to 2667)

    ty and sorry for my eng.
  • pajuk - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    another intel biased review . Why didint youput the price of the i5-8600k like in other reviews??
    maybe because you know that it costs the same as amd 2700 ??? tired of LIARS.
  • Korguz - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    prove it.. post some links...
  • Irata - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    The statement by Pajuk is actually not correct - the i5-8600k costs $288.96 boxed, the Ryzen 7 2700 229.99 - both at Newegg - so it's not the same price but $60 more.
  • pajuk - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    https://www.pcdiga.com/processador-amd-ryzen-7-270...
    https://www.pcdiga.com/processador-intel-core-i5-8...
  • pajuk - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    you help me even more, this LIARS in anadtech are as bad as tomshardware.

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