AMD Radeon HD 6870 & HD 6850

For fans of the original Mafia game, having to wait an incredible eight years for a sequel must’ve been tough. But as we found out in our review, the wait might be forgotten as the game is quite good. It doesn’t feature near as much depth as say, Grand Theft Auto IV, but it does a masterful job of bringing you back to the 1940’s and letting you experience the Mafia lifestyle.

Manual Run-through: Because this game doesn’t allow us to save a game in the middle of a level, we chose to use chapter 7, “In Loving Memory…”, to do our runthrough. That chapter begins us on a street corner with many people around, and from there, we run to our garage, get in our car, and speed out to the street. Our path ultimately leads us to the park, and takes close to two minutes to accomplish.

The results from AMD’s cards impressed me quite a bit here, because while Dirt 2 and Just Cause 2 seem to be more AMD-bound as mentioned, Mafia II has been the opposite. But here, both of AMD’s latest perform quite well, surpassing NVIDIA’s “equivalents” by just a tad.

The beefier card of the two, the HD 6870, could handle Mafia II at 2560×1600 with PhysX enabled to Medium, but for that, AA had to be disabled (it makes almost no difference in this game regardless). For the HD 6850, we used the same settings, except we also disabled PhysX entirely.