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.

Again let’s start with 1080p:

hitman_1080p_295x2_fpshitman_1080p_furyx_fpsHere we see a huge difference in FPS just looking at the charts.  However as we’ve learned before that doesn’t always mean that frametimes for the 295×2 will be good:

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This time however it looks like the 295×2 is performing perfectly and it’s the Fury X that is lagging much further behind than usual.

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Let’s see if the Fury X does better at 4K..

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Nothing looks abnormal here at all.  In fact the 295×2 looks bizarrely normal.  However frame rates are very low.  We would consider these settings unplayable, and so perhaps the test is unfair.

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Clearly the Fury X is spectacularly unhappy playing this game at these settings.

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While it’s clear that the R9-295×2 is close to the edge, it’s also clear that the Fury X has already jumped.  While Hitman is using a lot of VRAM (all of it), HBM was supposed to handle VRAM limits better than the R9-295×2.  If this performance is indeed due to VRAM than HBM’s claims are not being proved out.

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