AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 2GB

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.

I admit that I expected a bit more out of both HD 6900 cards here. The HD 5870 managed to out-pace the HD 6950, and likewise, NVIDIA’s GTX 570 proved about 10% faster than the HD 6970 at 1920×1080. Let’s see if this trend continues.