AMD Radeon 6990 Review - Mafia II

Submitted by skipclarke on 8 March, 2011 - 21:07

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Mafia II

Mafia II is an open world "crime" title from 2K Games. It is the second game in the Mafia series. The demo comes with a built-in benchmark tool that offers both indoor and outdoor environments, various lighting effects and fire.

A single card won't quite hit 30fps in Eyefinity, but a CFX setup pushes past consistently. We see a CPU limit at about 70fps in widescreen. Mafia II proves to be quite a demanding benchmark for Eyefinity, as only CFX configurations can consistently cross 30fps in Eyefinity. The Radeon HD 6990 hits 30fps in 5x1-P when the resolution is dropped to 4800x900.

Below is a table that outlines the performance difference between the Radeon HD 6990 and the comparable SKUs. For example, the Radeon HD 6990 provides a 1fps improvement over an Eyefinity6 CFX configuration in 3x1600x900, and that represents a 3% increase over that Eyefinity6 CFX configuration.

  % improvement of an HD 6990 vs... % improvement of an HD 6990 vs...
E6
CFX
E6 5970 6970
CFX
6950
CFX
E6
CFX
E6 5970 6970
CFX
6950
CFX
5x1 1920x1080 5 10       29% 83%      
1600x900 1 13       3% 76%      
3x1 1920x1080 4 15 11 2 3 13% 75% 39% 6% 8%
1600x900 3 13 11 1 2 8% 46% 37% 3% 5%
WS 1920x1080 2 15 7 -1 0 3% 27% 11% -1% 0%
1600x900 0 2 0 0 0 0% 3% 0% 0% 0%



AMD 6990 Mafia2 5x1


AMD 6990 Mafia2 EF


AMD 6990 Mafia2 WS