As such, there is no way to improve performance if you are CPU limited (apart from overclocking your systems). Hangar 13 has included a limited amount of options to tweak, however all of them have an effect on the GPU side. This basically means that PC gamers will need a really high-end system in order to enjoy this title at 60fps. Yes, most of the time the game did run with more than 60fps, however the game’s visuals do not really justify these ridiculous GPU requirements. Our GTX980Ti was simply unable to offer a constant 60fps experience (at 1080p with Max settings) as we had various drops to 50fps, even when we were not CPU limited.
This basically explains why our hexa-core and our simulated quad-core systems performed similarly (when Hyper-threading was enabled).Īs we’ve already said, Mafia 3 also requires a high-end GPU in order to be enjoyed. As we can see below, the game mainly scaled on six of our twelve threads. We also found out that the game is optimized for hexa-cores. In that very same scene, our hexa-core ran the game with 44fps, our simulated quad-core system ran it with 43fps and our simulated dual-core system was able to offer a constant 30fps experience. Things got a bit interesting when we enabled Hyper Threading. In this particular scene – in which we were CPU limited – our hexa-core ran Mafia 3 with 53fps, our simulated quad-core system ran it with 44fps, and our simulated dual-core system was unable to run it.
In order to find out how the game scales on various CPUs, we simulated a dual-core and a quad-core CPU. As such, we expect a lot of i5 or i7 owners to be CPU bottlenecked, and to experience low framerates. In fact, there were some scenes – during the first night mission – in which we were majorly limited by our CPU. The game was using all of our six CPU cores, something that really surprised us (considering there was nothing mind-blowing happening on screen). As we can see below, our hexacore was used to its fullest in towns.
Mafia 3 is one of the few titles that stresses both the GPU and the CPU. And given the game’s high GPU requirements, we strongly suggest avoiding this title if you own GPUs equivalent to a GTX680. NVIDIA has not included any SLI profile for this particular title, so there was no point testing our GTX690. Therefore, it’s time now to see how this title performs on the PC platform.Īs always, we used an Intel i7 4930K (turbo boosted at 4.2Ghz) with 8GB RAM, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, Windows 10 64-bit and the latest WHQL version of the GeForce drivers. Thankfully though, Hangar 13 was quick to react and released – in a matter of days – a patch that removed that ridiculous framerate lock. As you may already know, the initial version of Mafia 3 was locked at 30fps, something that frustrated a lot of PC gamers.
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