AMD Radeon HD 6990 Dual-GPU Graphics Card Review

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.

Compared to all of the other GPU configurations we test with, I think it’s safe to say that AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 has reached the level of “total domination”. The runner-up for our single graphics card configuration is AMD’s own HD 5970, while behind that sits NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580, managing about 69% of the performance of AMD’s $700 monster card. Let’s see if this dominating trend continues with a look at Just Cause 2.