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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console. As a fantasy RPG with a long history, the fruits of Square-Enix’s successful partnership with NVIDIA are on display. The game uses the internal Luminous Engine, and as with other Final Fantasy games, pushes the imagination of what we can do with the hardware underneath us. To that end, FFXV was one of the first games to promote the use of ‘video game landscape photography’, due in part to the extensive detail even at long range but also with the integration of NVIDIA’s Ansel software, that allowed for super-resolution imagery and post-processing effects to be applied.
In preparation for the launch of the game, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark. 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. We use the following settings:
- 720p Standard, 1080p Standard, 4K Standard, 8K Standard
For automation, the title accepts command line inputs for both resolution and settings, and then auto-quits when finished. As with the other benchmarks, we do as many runs until 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination has passed, and then take averages. Realistically, because of the length of this test, this equates to two runs per setting.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
upsss:https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vnF56By3SL2xWGrc...
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Shame they didn't have the 5800X and 5600X in there, would be interesting to see how they line up too. Strong progress indeed from AMD!5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The BEST moment of AMD👍👍👍Tunnah - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The eventual 5700X is going to be an absolute sales smasher I reckon.Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Is the Zen2 end-of-life?The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X $300 could sure put a really big squeeze on the i7-10700K
haukionkannel - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Most likely Zen2 is at the end of the line. Amd will produce Zen3 at TSMC 7nm and zen+ at Globalfounduries 12 or 14nm...FireSnake - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Gold reward.Haven't seen this here for quite a while.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
We haven't had a CPU worthy of one in quite a while. It's nice to be able to hand out awards like these.=)just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What's amazing about that Ryan is it's a AMD processor. It seemed like you guys really wanted to give the gold award last time around with the 3000 series... but then opted for the silver award, which wasn't to shabby as it's something that has become very uncommon even if it's a good review of a product that your impressed with. Great review by Ian, good job guys.Byte - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Save your next gold for the radeon 6900!