Hitman Absolution

Hitman: Absolution is a stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix. The game was released on 20 November 2012 (which is in the 47th week of the year in reference to the protagonist, Agent 47) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. In the aftermath of Hitman: Blood Money, Diana Burnwood, Agent 47’s handler with the International Contract Agency, suddenly goes rogue, carrying out a catastrophic sabotage that includes publicly exposing the Agency. The Agency reforms under Agent Benjamin Travis; Travis assigns 47 to kill Diana and bring Victoria, a teenage girl in her care, to the Agency. Shooting and wounding Diana in her home in Chicago, 47, rather than executing her, comforts the dying Diana, who gives him a letter and asks him to keep Victoria safe from the Agency. Wikipedia

• Ultra
  • MSAA – 8X
  • Texture Quality -High
  • Texture Aniso – 16x
  • Shadows – Ultra
  • SSAO – High
  • Global Illumination – On
  • Reflections – On
  • FXAA – On
  • Level of Detail – Ultra
  • Depth of Field – High
  • Tessellation – On
  • Bloom – Normal

Hitman Absolution is a very graphically intense game, but it’s important to note that during this benchmark MSAA was turned up to 8X which we’ve found has a heavy impact on FPS.

No doubt turning AA down would make this game much more enjoyable to play on a GTX960.

Usage look great and frametimes did too considering the low FPS:

For 1080p you can get away with a single card if you turn down the aliasing. 4K however is another story:

While AA is perhaps unnecessarily on, we don’t believe that turning it off will make the game playable with a 960.  Partly it’s a VRAM issue, however with the 970 still struggling at 13 FPS even the 4GB 960 would be unplayable.