Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition Benchmark Released

Square Enix has released an official benchmark for the upcoming release of Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition which will be released on March 6th. The 4GB benchmark is not a playable section of the game but rather a series of pre-configured demo scenes that take about six minutes to run. FFXV: Windows Edition’s benchmark allows users to try out three different quality settings – Lite, Medium and High and three resolutions – 720p, 1080p and 4k. Users of the benchmark have pointed out that it does not offer 1440p resolution support, a common resolution between 1080p and true 4k.

Don’t have access to a gaming PC and want to know how it looks? I recorded the demo on my Dell Inspiron 7000 Gaming Laptop with a Geforce 1050. On this modest medium range gaming setup I got a solid 30 FPS with very few dips (only noticeable during loading screens) on medium settings at 1080p. My gaming laptop ended up with a score of 3000 on the benchmark – which means that it is right around the recommended specs for the medium quality pre-set.

We previously reported on the minimum specs for each supported resolution. Here they are:

Recommended Specs for 1080p

• AMD 8350 or Intel i7 3770

• 16GB

• At least 100GB free

• GeForce 1060 6GB variant or Radeon 480 8GB variant

Recommended Specs for 4K

• Windows 10

• Intel 7700k or AMD Ryzen 1600x

• 16GB

• At least 150GB free

• GeForce 1080TI

Square Enix also released a neat little chart that outlines what certain scores mean for the final version of FFXV: Windows Version. It should be pointed out that this chart outs quality pre-sets that go well beyond the released benchmark. The pre-sets expected to be in the final version are: Extremely High, Very High, High, Fairly High, Standard, Slightly Low, Low and Insufficient (does not run the game).

Square also published a reference list about how a whole pile of GPUS should perform in the Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition benchmark under optimal circumstances. Here is a cross section of some of the most popular GPUs and how they should score on the Lite setting:

Geforce 10 Series:

Geforce 1080: 1437

Geforce 1070: 12797

Geforce 1060: 9708

AMD RX 5XX / 4XZX Series:

RX Vega: 13263

RX 570: 10270

RX 470: 9720

Geforce 9 Series:

Geforce 980: 11205

Geforce 970: 10195

Geforce 970m: 7545

Geforce 950: 6375

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