Xe-LP GPU Performance: Final Fantasy XIV

Despite being one number less than Final Fantasy 15, because FF14 is a massively-multiplayer online title, there are always yearly update packages which give the opportunity for graphical updates too. In 2019, FFXIV launched its Shadowbringers expansion, and an official standalone benchmark was released at the same time for users to understand what level of performance they could expect. Much like the FF15 benchmark we’ve been using for a while, this test is a long 7-minute scene of simulated gameplay within the title. There are a number of interesting graphical features, and it certainly looks more like a 2019 title than a 2010 release, which is when FF14 first came out.

With this being a standalone benchmark, we do not have to worry about updates, and the idea for these sort of tests for end-users is to keep the code base consistent.

Final Fantasy XIV: 768p Minimum QualityFinal Fantasy XIV: 1080p Maximum Quality

This is an easy win for Intel.

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  • Drumsticks - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    This comment seems disingenuous. In the power consumption article, even AMD is boosting up to nearly 40W. It looks like Tiger Lake will be more power efficient than Renoir in lightly threaded workloads, and Renoir would be more efficient in heavily threaded ones that can use the entire SoC.
  • Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    Renoir boosts up to about 35W across 8 cores. Tiger Lake boosts to 50W across 4. That's a 42% difference. Even if Renoir actually hit 40W, that'd still be a 25% increase in power draw while boosting.
  • JayNor - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    I usually have my laptop plugged in... don't really care how long the battery lasts then. Seems like the ability to choose higher performance is a nice feature.
  • ikjadoon - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    Did we look at the same charts? Area under the curve, my friend. In extreme usages for thin-and-light laptops,

    15 W Renoir: 2842 seconds for 62660 joules
    15 W Ice Lake: 4733 seconds for 82344 joules
    15 W Tiger Lake: 4311 seconds for 64854 joules

    If we're looking at multi-threaded power consumption, Renoir & TGL should be close with a small lead for Renoir.

    Instantaneous power draw is higher for Tiger Lake, but that 43 W is for mere seconds and not indicative of actually how high it boosts for the entire period.
  • Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link

    We did, I just hadn't had time to take the numbers in fully - and you're absolutely right.
  • RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link

    Lol 1st read the article before commenting. Take your fanboy stuff to wccftech you will fit in perfectly.
  • Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link

    Whatever you say, buddy 🤷
  • Alistair - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    So it is just Ice Lake again without any major improvements outside the integrated GPU people don't care about. Get double the cores for less money with Renoir.
  • Alistair - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    This isn't 2019 anymore... we went from 4 to 8 cores for the same price and each core is +20 percent with AMD in the last 6 months.
  • Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link

    Bingo.

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