Image quality settings and benchmark system
Image quality settings and benchmark system
We use a time based measurement based upon gamerplay. We flick the quality settings upwards and disable VSYNC. Games typically should be able to run in the 40 FPS range combined with your monitor resolution. From there on-wards you can enable/disable things if you need-more performance or demand even better game rendering quality. Mafia 3's graphics options offer some very PC specific tweakable stuff including: depth of field, FOV slider, vsync, ambient occlusion, motion blur, geometry detail, antialiasing, reflection quality, shadow quality and volumetric effects.
The graphics cards tested
In this review we'll test the following cards at the best PC experience, High Quality mode (this is the best possible mode) with VSYNC OFF and unlimited FPS. At the launch the devs made the terrible mistake to lock the frame-rate towards 30 FPS with a capo. This has been fixed with the new 1.01 patch as the game now allows unlimited framerates, 30 FPS and 60 FPS locks as well as VSYNC off.
- GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB)
- GeForce GTX 1070
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980
- GeForce GTX 970
- GeForce GTX 970
- NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal)
- Radeon R9 380X
- Radeon R9 390
- Radeon R9 390X
- Radeon R9 Fury
- Radeon R9 Fury X
- Radeon R9 Nano
- Radeon RX 470 (4GB)
- Radeon RX 480 (8GB)
System Specifications & recommended drivers
Our test system is based on the eight-core Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition with Haswell-E based setup on the X99 chipset platform. This setup is running 4.40 GHz on all cores. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.
The recommended drivers for Mafia III are:
- GeForce cards use the latest 373.06 driver (download drivers).
- Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Crimson 16.10.1 Driver (download drivers).
