DIRT 2

Codemasters’ 2009 off-road racing game continues its reign as the token racer in our benchmark suite. As the first DX11 racer, DIRT 2 makes pretty thorough use of the DX11’s tessellation abilities, not to mention still being the best looking racer we have ever seen.

NVIDIA has in the past and continues to do rather well in DIRT 2, an amusing outcome given that this was an AMD promoted game. The GTX 580 is not only over 20% faster over the GTX 480, but enjoys a small lead over even the 5970, falling to only the 6870 CF. Not that it’s hard to do well here; even the GTX 480 can almost hit 60fps at 2560.

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  • TonyB - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    But can it play Crysis?
  • Etern205 - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    It already has a benchmark on Crysis...

    And it's no surprise as being the fastest Direct X 11 card in the single GPU category.
  • mfenn - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    whoooosh
  • deputc26 - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    "Red 580 Load" instead of "Ref 580 Load" at the top of the power temp & noise page.
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    Let it go.
  • taltamir - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - link

    only in reduced quality, the specifically said it, and any other card on the market, can't play a maxed out crysis.
  • B3an - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - link

    It can play Crysis maxed out. If this thing can get 38FPS (playable) on "gamer quality" at 2560 res with 4xAA then it can certainly run crysis maxed out at the way lower 1080p res.

    The 480 that i owned could do this. And one of my 5870's can also do it...but with no AA.
  • limonovich - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    more like gtx 485
  • Sihastru - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    And what would you call the 6870/6850?
  • Goty - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    The 6870 and 6850 since there were real architectural changes and there are still faster cards to come.

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