DX11: Mafia III

DX11: Mafia III

Mafia III is set in the open world of 1968 New Bordeaux, a reimagined version of New Orleans bustling with activity and complete with era-inspired cars, fashion and music. After years of combat in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth: family isn't who you're born with, it's who you die for. Now, back home in New Bordeaux, Lincoln is set on escaping his criminal past. But when his surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family from the ashes of the old and blazes a path of military-grade revenge through those responsible. Intense gun fights, visceral hand-to-hand combat, white-knuckle driving, hard choices and street smarts will all be required to survive the mean streets of New Bordeaux. But with the right crew, it's possible to make it to the top of the city's underworld.

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.

We'll test the cards at the High Quality mode (this is the best possible mode) with VSYNC OFF and unlimited FPS.