Final Fantasy XVI is, leaving aside the usual controversy of absurd exclusivities, one of the most anticipated titles for PC this year, and now that it is finally among us, many users are enjoying it… although some not so much, due to the performance that this “port” offers with some graphics cards. For this reason, it’s always great when someone tries a game with different graphics cardssince this way we can get a pretty good idea of the performance that we are going to have with ours, as is precisely what has happened now with Final Fantasy XVI.
In this case it has been our colleagues from the German website Computerbase (you have their original article linked at the bottom) who have had the opportunity to test how Final Fantasy XVI works with no more and no less than 22 different graphics cards, so thank you With this we will be able to know with certainty the expected performance with one or another model.
Final Fantasy XVI performance on PC with 22 graphics cards
All tests have been run on a fairly modern gaming PC, equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor (which is one of the best for gaming currently) cooled with a Noctua NH-D15S heatsink, a high-end ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E motherboard Hero, 48 GB of G.Skill TridentZ Neo DDR5 RAM at 6,000 MHz and of course a high-performance PCIe 4.0 SSD.
It is also necessary to mention that the tests have been run on Windows 11 23H2 with all the patches installed, while the graphics driver on the AMD GPUs was Adrenalin 24.20.11.01 and on the NVIDIA GPUs it was GeForce 561.09. There is also some Intel graphics, tested with the 6078 drivers.
The test was carried out at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p and 2160p) with the graphics settings at High and the “quality” mode of DLSS on NVIDIA graphics and FSR on AMD graphics. It has been tested in the “border forest” sequence, a light benchmark that barely lasts 20 seconds but gives a good idea of the expected performance, since it is a scene that is very overloaded with elements and requires a lot of graphical power. This has been the result.
Surely no one will be surprised to see that NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 is the first on the list in all resolutions, but it is (seriously) curious that it is the only one capable of maintaining more than 60 FPS at 4K resolution, although it is true that both the RTX 4080 SUPER and the RX 7900 XTX are quite close. We could say that with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and the Radeon RX 7900 to give a good gaming experience at this resolution.
Speaking of the 1440p resolution (sometimes incorrectly called 2K), even graphics cards from previous generations give us the desirable 60 FPS on average, such as the Radeon RX 6800 XT or the GeForce RTX 3080. In general, all graphics cards tested at this resolution with the exception of the Intel Arc A770 will give us an acceptable gaming experience, above 40 FPS.
Now at Full HD resolution things change, and in general Final Fantasy XVI is playable with a good FPS rate with almost all the graphics tested, and even the old “queen of the mid-range”, the RTX 3060, is capable of providing a average of more than 40 FPS. Now, if we demand the desirable 60 FPS we will have to start with the Radeon RX 7700 XT, and from there up.
In conclusion, it seems to us personally that the port of Final Fantasy XVI, without being bad or having problems, could have been better optimized, since we consider that for example a Radeon RX 7900 XTX that costs more than 1,000 euros should give more than 112 FPS on average at Full HD resolution, and thus be able to take advantage of monitors with high refresh rates. What do you think?
