Mafia: The Old Country
Mafia: The Old Country was released to PC in August of 2025 and is based on the Unreal Engine 5 game engine. Mafia: The Old Country features Nanite and Lumen from Unreal Engine 5 with detailed environments and realistic lighting, with MetaHuman for characters. It does use Lumen for realistic global illumination and shadows. It also supports DLSS, FSR, XeSS, and TSR. We are using a manual in-game run-through in the Prologue: Tremori section that takes place outdoors, in the entirety of the outdoor section playthrough in the daylight.
Mafia: The Old Country is very demanding in its “Epic” quality preset, which is the game’s highest image quality setting. At 1080p, native resolution, the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 8GB provides a somewhat playable experience, averaging 57FPS. Some may not find this playable, and so lowering the image quality down a notch or two does bring this over 60FPS average. Otherwise, you can turn on DLSS Quality Upscaling, and performance is at a playable 76FPS in Epic quality settings. The PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 8GB is slower than the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB by just a smidge. Overclocking the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 8GB provides a 4% performance uplift, and that is now slightly faster than the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB video card.
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Join Discussion →That is a powerhouse of a 1080p gamer. Very nice... I'd call it budget it it's still almost as much as a modern console... oof.
I admit I jumped on the 8GB hate bandwagon of late, but very happy to see how well this card performs at 1080p.
I remember doing some tests with my 4090 a couple of years ago at 1080p with settings maxed to just see what FPS my rigs were capable of, but I was also shocked by how nice modern games can look at 1080p w/ current textures, RT, etc., so a value-priced card like this providing the same visuals is a great deal. I even noticed how the Amazon price dropped to $349 for now.
i think a lot of folks are doing a 180 now that more RAM requires a credit check and reverse mortgage
Maybe Ram Doubler will make a comeback.
Paying $350 for 8GB in 2026. That's a hard no from me dawg. It'll probably be consider a hot deal in a few months. The dark times have returned.
Linux and indie gaming is on the rise, I kid you not. Younger gamers with little cheddar grow weary of corpo greed. But not just the cash strapped either. My son has a 5800X3D, 32GB 3600, 7800XT. You know what he and his friends are playing? Vintage Story. It will run on a decade old potato. Tarkov is the only game they play that is hard to run. Also indie. Almost everything they play is indie.