Performance benchmarks for Mafia 3 on Nvidia & AMD GPUs are out and the results are downright ugly. This could quite possibly be the most demanding game we have ever seen to date. But does it make up for this rig bustingperformance with compelling visuals? Well, the answer is actually no. A decisive, categorical no.

The game is so demanding in fact that just to play the game at 60 FPS 1080p you will need to pony up $650 plus dollars for a GTX 1080. In fact, compared to GTA V, Mafia 3 runs two to three times slower for the same visual quality.I can already hearyour audible gasps all the wayfrom over here,so let's dig into the results.

Nvidia & AMD GPUs Brought To Their Knees

Let's begin with 1920x1080 benchmarks firstwith all the settings cranked up to theirhighestpresets.These results are courtesy of GameGPU.com, so many thanks to the good folks over there. These tests were conducted with the latest drivers from both AMD and Nvidia.

Source : GameGPU.com

At 1920x1080 and highsettings you will want at least an AMD Radeon Rx 470 or an Nvidia GeForce GTX1060just for 30 FPSaverage.If you want a slightly smoothermid 40s framerate you will want to step up to an AMD Radeon R9 Nanoor aGTX 1080.

By turning acouple of settings down, an average of 45FPS will be attainablean RX 470 or a GTX 1060. On a faster R9 Fury series card or GTX 980 Ti / 1070you shouldbe able to hit 60 FPS as long as you're willing to turn some of the settings down.

The not so good news however is that if you're an owner of a GeForce GTX 600/700 series card or an AMD Radeon HD 7000 series card you will struggle to play the game at all, even at 30 FPS. That is unless you turn the graphics settings way down. The Radeon R9 290 series cards fair slightly better here but still struggle to churn out more than 34 frames per second.

Source : GameGPU.com

At 2560x1440 the situation looks verygrim. No graphics card manages to achieve a 60 FPS average. What's worse is that not even multi-GPU setups can improve your performance because the game simply doesn't support SLI or Crossfire. Nothing short of an R9 Nano can deliver 30 frames per second on average. The GTX 1070 and R9 Fury X don't fair much better with a 39 FPS average.

At 4K things go from annoying to utterly ridiculous.

Source : GameGPU.com

No hardware setup in existence today can even deliver a 30 frames per second average at 4K in Mafia 3, save for Nvidia's $1200 GTX Titan X.

Is Mafia 3The New Crysis? More Like AC Unity

What PC gamers are especially angry about isthat not only does the game perform horribly but it is riddled with visual bugs. From glitchy mirrors, a draw distance so short that it fails to display vehicles presentin the road and actually leads you tocrash into other carsand die instantly, pixelated cloudsand skies that the have the visual appeal and realismof alate 90's soap to a game worldthat point-blank refuses to follow the laws of physics.

So there you have it folks,is Mafia 3 the new Crysis? Well visuallyspeaking it tries hard tobreak new ground but what it manages to be so successful at is breaking your hardware's will. The game was so obviously rushed out the door. The result iscatastrophically bad performance & an abundance of glitches. Mafia 3 may not be the newCrysis, but it couldvery well qualify asthe new Assassin's Creed Unity.The hope is thatwe'll see performance improvements with additional patchesand driver updates, but don't hold your breath.