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| Tuesday, 07 December 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX9+SSAO: Mafia IIMafia II is a single-player third-person action shooter developed by 2K Czech for 2K Games, and is the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven released in 2002. Players assume the life of World War II veteran Vito Scaletta, the son of small Sicilian family who immigrates to Empire Bay. Growing up in the slums of Empire Bay teaches Vito about crime, and he's forced to join the Army in lieu of jail time. After sustaining wounds in the war, Vito returns home and quickly finds trouble as he again partners with his childhood friend and accomplice Joe Barbaro. Vito and Joe combine their passion for fame and riches to take on the city, and work their way to the top in Mafia II. Mafia II is a SSAO-enabled PC video game built on 2K Czech's proprietary Illusion game engine, which succeeds the LS3D game engine used in Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. In our Mafia-II Video Game Performance article, Benchmark Reviews explored characters and gameplay while illustrating how well this game delivers APEX PhysX features on both AMD and NVIDIA products. Thanks to DirectX-11 APEX PhysX extensions that can be processed by the system's CPU, Mafia II offers gamers is equal access to high-detail physics regardless of video card manufacturer.
Mafia II Extreme Quality Settings
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Comments
i didnt thought 152hp machine can beat 177hp.... but yea it matches it and so much price difference...
totally stunning card compared to older price/perfor ratios by Nvidia...
i was going for GTX 580 but now i gotta think 170$ extra for 6fps in heavy games...
Finally i gotta again wait for price downs on GTX 580 ... or i will go for GTX 570 which is sweet deal !!
Thanks for the article!
Anyway good job once again.
Lookin like a great card btw. First time in years that i'm looking to buy a nvidia card instead of an ati. I sent thermaltake a mail to see wether the awesome coolingapparatice ISGC-V320 will fit (believe me it's a great cooler, but has to be supported some way because of the enormous weight).
GTX 460 - 47.5 FPS
HD 6870 - 55.7 FPS
HD 5870 - 65.9 FPS
The temperature difference still has me a little baffled. The cooling solution is the same, and the test methodology was identical. Yet, somehow, the GeForce GTX 570 sample I received heats up more than both the GTX 580 I have.
If I hadn't retested three different times, I would still think there was something amiss. It is what it is.
Running Adobe apps / premiere pro MPE temps are about 55 degrees.
How can the 480 have an absolute max temp of 82C? I've seen this card go to 95 - 100 easily, having both the 480 and the 570 at the same max temp is baffling.
I searched for overclocking maximum results and not surprisingly the fastest 470 results clocked about 900+ (air, stock cooling) MHz - just the 570 results I found so far. With my lame mind (as I'm not an insider in the hw industry) I think that the ~900 is a limit that is nvidia made (with their 'protection'), not the limit that comes from the 40nm manufacturing process. And this things clearly show that the 570's higher clocks doesn't come from the more refined manufacturing (as older gen CPUs got more overclockable when their newer revisions came out) just from marketing strategy. Like you design a Porsche GT3, but first you sell a version to the public which is limited just a bit higher than the Boxter's (and call it Boxter2). Then playing that you worked hard (but did nothing), you limit the product less, say 911 Turbo. But literally the same product.
I will wait for 1: when the prices starting to drop; 2: the next gen.