AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB

It’s not that often that faithful PC gamers get a proper racing game for their platform of choice, but Dirt 2 is one of those. While it is a “console port”, there’s virtually nothing in the game that will make that point stand out. The game as a whole takes good advantage of our PC’s hardware, and it’s as challenging as it is good-looking.

Manual Run-through: The race we chose to use in Dirt 2 is the first one available in the game, as it’s easily accessible and features a lot of GPU-pounding effects that the game has become known for, such as realistic dust and water effects, a large on-looking crowd of people and fine details on and off the track. Each run-through lasts the entire two laps, which comes out to about 2.5 minutes.

We’re seeing some interesting results so far, because overall, it’s the 1GB card that’s coming ahead, not the 2GB. Things changed a little bit at 2560×1600, but as the 2GB card pushed ahead by a mere 0.3FPS, that change is the definition of “minor”.