Benchmarks: CPU Scaling

With PhysX and anti-aliasing disabled the GPU becomes less of a bottleneck at 1290x1200 with the focus shifted towards the CPU. Using a GeForce GTX 480 nosotros were able to obtain an boilerplate frame rate of 88fps using the overclocked Core i7 920 processor at 4.0GHz.

This same processor was slightly slower when operating at its default frequency of ii.66GHz delivering 83fps. Overclocking the Core i5 and Core i7 processors did very fiddling to meliorate performance in Mafia Ii when using these quality settings.

The Phenom Ii X4 965 was ~4% slower than the Core i5 750, which is not bad. This also made it eight% faster than the Core i3 540 when working at its default operating frequency. We noted that Mafia II is quad-core optimized and every bit a outcome the Phenom 2 X2 555 was found to be 30% slower than the quad-core Phenom II X4 965 processor.

Now with PhysX enabled we over again meet a massive dive in performance when using the GeForce GTX 480 graphics bill of fare. Overclocking becomes far more critical as we saw a massive 34% jump in frame rate when overclocking the Core i7 920 processor. The Cadre i5 750 also enjoyed a 33% operation increase when going from the standard 2.66GHz to 4.0GHz.

Again we run into that the Phenom Two X4 965 is simply slightly slower than the Core i5 750 processor, this fourth dimension giving up ix% performance. Still that made it 35% faster than the dual-core Phenom II X2 555 processor which averaged just 23fps and as a result was unable to deliver playable performance.