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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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Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
No, that's meyeeeeman - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Ian, you need to buy some new servers for anandtech.com now that AMD has launched zen 3.The site is barely loading.
DigitalFreak - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I wonder if they're still running on the last hardware upgrade Anand did.Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Nah, we're a couple of generations past that now.Phiro69 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
As far as I can tell, it's cloudfront having problems, not Anandtech's backend. I would be surprised if they aren't 100% cloud based at this point, too.gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
This is what I expected from AMD, 10 years but it came !!gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Athlon 64 X2 2005 = 15 añosTomatotech - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
15 anuses? Surely it’s not *that* bad ;)ahenriquedsj - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
In competitive games it is a massacre.Double Trouble - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What AMD has been able to achieve over the past few years is definitely impressive, and this 5000 series CPU set is excellent. However, I do wonder if climbing up the price / segment chart is going to take a toll. For me, I've upgraded 5 PC's from older CPU's to Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X because the price was very reasonable (about $170). With a minimum of $300 for the new 5600X, that's almost double the price, so I won't be buying any for a long time. The 5000 series is impressive, but not worth that kind of a steep price. I wonder if a lot of other buyers might be in the same boat.